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Kari Lake: Conversation with DeWit was ‘was so much worse than I remembered’ [1]
['Caitlin Sievers', 'More From Author', '- January']
Date: 2024-01
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake took to Rumble Wednesday evening, in what she said was an effort to answer questions about a recently released secret recording she made of a conversation last spring between herself and then-Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit.
But the Republican and former local television personality spent a significant portion of her livestream denigrating the Arizona media — repeatedly calling one journalist a “cat lady” — and railing against unnamed corrupt politicians. She also repeatedly asked listeners to donate to her campaign and buy her book.
DeWit resigned Wednesday, a day after the Lake campaign released the recording, in which DeWit offered Lake a job or money in exchange for a promise that she would stay out of the Senate race.
Lake and her allies accused DeWit of trying to bribe Lake, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2022. In the conversation, which happened at Lake’s home in March 2023, DeWit asked Lake to name her price to “take a pause” from seeking elected office “for a couple of years.”
“There are very powerful people who want to keep you out, and what they’re willing to do is put their money where their mouth is in a big way,” he told Lake.
Lake told livestream viewers that she didn’t know for sure who reached out to DeWit with the offer, but that she “could probably come up with a list of 400 to 500 people who are behind this.”
Lake played the recording for listeners, who could hear DeWit instruct Lake not to tell anyone about the conversation, and Lake repeating the phrase “I cannot be bought.”
In his resignation letter, DeWit called out Lake for recording and publicly releasing what he believed was a private conversation between friends and accused her of selectively editing the recording.
Lake said that DeWit’s resignation “came very late,” and pointed out that it didn’t contain an apology to the people of Arizona.
“He tried to act like the behavior on that audio is normal communication amongst friends,” Lake said. “He should have apologized and said he would work to do better.”
DeWit wrote in his resignation that, at the time of the recording, Lake was his employee. Lake said that it was not news that both she and DeWit worked for Superfeed Technologies, which creates apps that promote political campaigns, at the same time. She added that DeWit was not her boss at the firm, but her colleague.
DeWit was the CEO of Superfeed, while in previous personal financial reports, Lake was described as a communications advisor to Superfeed.
When one viewer asked Lake why it took her so long to release the recording, she skirted the question, saying that she talked about the “bribe” publicly right after it happened in a speech at CPAC, and that no members of the media ever asked her about it.
Lake failed to explain why she waited so long to reveal that DeWit was the one who made the offer, other than saying she hadn’t remembered how bad the conversation was until she decided to listen to the recording a few days ago.
“It was so much worse than what I remembered it being,” she said.
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