“She’s there every night”: Donald Trump has a new roommate in Mar-a-Lago

Election denier Kari Lake
“She’s there every night”: Donald Trump probably has a new roommate in Mar-a-Lago

Kari Lake is best known for denying her election defeat for the last two years. But her ambitions for political office are high, which is why she is now looking to be close to Donald Trump in his Florida mansion – in the literal sense.

Donald Trump needs a wife. Preferably much younger, one who makes a good impression in front of the cameras. Maybe even someone with non-white roots and, ideally, from an important, because electoral state. Nikki Haley could be that person, could become the vice presidential candidate with whom Trump is campaigning: 51 years old, Indian parents, politically experienced and one of the few companions who survived his presidency unscathed. But for now, Haley wants to run for the highest office in the United States herself, which is why another fangirl is now looking to be close to Donald Trump – in the literal sense.

“There’s a suite she basically lives in”

“Kari Lake is there every night. She’s there all the time. There’s a suite that she basically lives in,” quotes the US magazine “People” an unspecified person from the environment of the ex-president. There, that’s Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Sunshine State Florida. And Kari Lake is a former television journalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona’s governorship. Since then, she’s been touring the country as a kind of female Donald Trump.

According to the People source, Lake spends much of her time during Mar-a-Lago’s peak season, which is the winter months. The complex is not only the residence of the ex-president but also a club and resort. One night costs around 2000 US dollars. Kari Lake first opened up in Mar-a-Lago after Trump announced his renewed candidacy, according to People. “She’s working on a deal. She wants something bigger quickly to compensate for her defeat in Arizona,” the informant tells the US magazine.

“People” also expressly mentions Trump’s wife Melania in the story, who would largely hold back when she was in Florida. The fact that Kari Lake is also married and usually travels with her husband is not mentioned at all. Obviously, the not particularly subliminal message resonates in the “People” post that Trump and Lake could be having an affair. All intentional to harm them both angry conservative voices in the social media.

Amazing blank slate

53-year-old Lake is a surprisingly unknown political figure. For a long time she was a news anchor at a local news station in Phoenix, Arizona, until she increasingly began posting fake news on her Twitter profile. With the corona pandemic, she alienated herself from TV journalism and left the station in 2021. Over time, she was a member of both the Republicans and the Democrats. Until 2008, she supported the Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and Barack Obama. But she was never active herself.

Until two years ago, when she ran for governor in her native Arizona in the southwestern United States and quickly became a star of the far right. With the support of Donald Trump, she clearly prevailed against a moderate opponent in the inner-party primaries. It was a clear sign that Trump’s Make America Great Again movement had taken over the Republican Party. Her political “program” looked correspondingly extreme: the elections are “stolen” by the left, who would have her arrested immediately as governor. (Christian) prayer must be resumed in schools and the rights of gun owners must be strengthened.

Despite these small positions and her lack of experience in public office, Lake fought a very close neck-and-neck race with her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs. In the end, Lake was 17,000 votes short of victory. Because she couldn’t accept her defeat, she went to court – and lost all her cases. Since then she has been thirsting for redemption. It is said that she could also imagine a post in the US Senate, one of the two chambers of Parliament.

Donald Trump’s help needed

Regardless of whether she is a senator or a vice president, she would need Donald Trump’s help for both election campaigns. Until he has made a decision, Kari Lake is touring the country with her book. Her biography is called “Unafraid”. Although still relatively new to the business, she’s already getting paid like the big ones: Lake charges $250 for the book with a dedication, and $750 for a photo together. First Appearance: June 29 at Trump’s summer residence, his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Sources: The Hill“People”, 270towin.comKari Lake on Twitter