President Donald Trump’s designated Voice of America took to the stage at CPAC on Friday to help spread the word across the globe about the county’s newly arrived “golden age.”

“We are fighting an information war, and there’s no better weapon than the truth. And I believe the Voice of America can be that weapon,” Kari Lake said in her 15-minute speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“I told President Trump when he called me and asked me to lead the Voice of America that we will focus on accurate and honest reporting.”

This, not even three minutes after she parroted Elon Musk’s most nonsensical claim yet — the one about all the 150-year-olds collecting Social Security.

A claim that America’s paragon of journalism swallowed with gusto.

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“Social Security benefits to 150-year-olds? The only 150-year-old I know is Joe Biden,” Lake told the crowd, while running down a list of federal spending uncovered by Musk’s Department of........

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