Former media personality Kari Lake sat down for a 15-minute interview with 60 Minutes that quickly went off the rails.Instead of waiting for the edited interview to go to air in Australia, Ms Lake published the entire, unedited conversation on video platform Rumble.“This Hack ‘Journalist’ went into high gear,” she wrote in the description.“They’re far too comfortable spreading propaganda. CALL. THEM. OUT. Enjoy the end of this wildly-biased interview.”She continued: “It’s no secret that the Media is OBSESSED with President Trump, but this nut-job from 60 Minutes Australia takes that obsession to a whole new level. Propagandist Liam Bartlett is infatuated with our favourite President.“It was clear from the start that this was another Corporate Media Cabal hit-piece. And when it ended Liam became desperate — he seemed panicked he didn’t get the interview he wanted.“Hey, Liam, stop lying to the people of Australia.”The interview touched on subjects including Covid-19, the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6 and what Ms Lake describes as a rigged election that sent Joe Biden to the White House.During the conversation, she also referred to Australia as a country where “you don’t have any freedom”. She claimed Australia would be better off if gun laws were never introduced and members of the public were legally able to bear arms.Things started off well for the pair, discussing the weather. But they quickly went down hill.“What’s the personal appeal of Donald Trump for smart people like you?” Bartlett asked.“I just told you, his America First movement. The appeal is that he cared about America. He gave up so much to run for President. He didn’t have to do that. I also think he’s a great person. He’s a wonderful man,” Ms Lake said.Bartlett pursued the idea that to support Trump one must believe the “big lie that the election was stolen”.The phrase was an unwelcome one.“You’re thousands of miles away, you really have no idea what happened in this election,” Ms Lake said.“The media’s been pushing this narrative calling it this ‘big lie’. We had a forensic audit here.“It is really rich to have someone from Australia come in here trying to tell us how our elections were run. You haven’t done your homework either, why didn’t you read the forensic audit.“You’re coming here from Australia, where you don’t have any freedom, and you’re trying to tell us that our elections were on the up and up? I don’t think so.“This is corruption at the highest levels of government. For you to sit there and not do your research and not be a true journalist.”Bartlett told her he had done his research and “there’s still been no evidence (of corruption) presented”.“It’s really kind of appalling frankly, Liam, that you’re sitting there in Australia trying to tell us what we should be doing here in America. You don’t even have freedoms down there.”The Republican said of the January 6 insurrection that violence is never OK but people are being held in prison without being charged.“What I don’t like is that people are being held in prison without being charged. Maybe they get away with that stuff in Australia,” she said.“Perhaps in Australia because you’ve given your rights away, you’ve melted down all your guns, and you guys have no freedom, you find that OK.”Bartlett asked if Australia would be better off having “more guns”.“You absolutely would. I feel so sorry for the people in Australia who have no power. The only thing stopping us from being Australia right now is the 2nd Amendment. And we will never ever let that go.”She said Australia’s quarantine laws that saw returning travellers quarantined at Howard Springs, among other places, was “the most horrifying thing I think I’ve ever seen a government do”.When the interview ended, Bartlett took exception with the lack of time he had been given. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going?” he asked Ms Lake.“I gave you 15 minutes. I promised you 15 minutes,” she tells him.“Well, no, you promised us 30 minutes yesterday.”Bartlett told Ms Lake he was “sorry you couldn’t bring yourself to actually see yourself in a different light”.“Are you a journalist, an unbiased journalist, or not?” she fired back. “Why are you trying to tell me how I should see the world?”She asked him if he was “one of the guys pushing the fear with Covid” or “the kind of guy who masks his children”.Bartlett responded: “I suppose you’re the sort of woman who believes the moon landing was a conspiracy? I mean, how many institutions do you want to tear down in this.”As Ms Lake walked out of the room, she turned to the camera crew to take one final, parting shot at the Nine journalist.“That guy is a complete nut. Seriously, a complete insane person. Do people in Australia listen to him? That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced.”
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