‘Piece Of Sh*t!’: Ex-RNC Spox Claims Kari Lake Came At Him During A Turning Point USA After Party
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Tim Miller, the former Republican National Committee spokesperson and current anti-Trump commentator, claimed he was verbally attacked by Trump appointee Kari Lake at a conservative event over the weekend.
Miller and Lake have a history of public tussles and disagreeing on pretty much everything except the fentanyl crisis plaguing the country.
In a piece for The Bulwark, Miller wrote, “You would think that a person who went from local TV anchor, to failed gubernatorial candidate, to failed Senate candidate, to director of the Voice of America in a few short years—based on no actual accomplishments—would be . . . happy?”
But Miller was quickly disabused of that notion when Lake made her way up to him at a Turning Point USA after-party.
Miller wrote that he was “nursing a bourbon and coke” when Lake confronted him and her husband recorded the encounter. He added:
“DON’T TOUCH ME,” Kari Lake screams in my face, I assume in reference to a bit of discomfort with mid-interview physical contact that I had expressed in our last encounter. “YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.”
The face briefly collects itself and appears to look back and see if her husband was taping the exchange. One of the many observers of the scene—and let me tell you, it was a SCENE—later told me that they thought Cameraman Lake had missed the approach, possibly the cause of Kari’s decision to double back for more.
She turns back around.
“You are a piece of shit!” she repeats over, and over, and over, and over, and over, staring up at me with increasing rage in her eyes and at times pinching my arm like an angry grandmother. Lake goes on to make a series of other accusations about my integrity. Among them: That I don’t care about “fentanyl mothers,” that I am a “fake news” “liar,” and that I was hiding my signature pearl necklace underneath a button-up shirt. (On this last count, at least, I can conclusively say that she was incorrect. )
Miller wrote that conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer made “an unlikely peacemaker” when she calmed Lake down by agreeing that Miller was, in fact, a “piece of shit.”
Lake hasn’t commented on the alleged encounter, and so far, the recording has not made the rounds on social media.
