Kari Lake, senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, told Newsmax on Monday that Elon Musk is far from the toxic personality that Democrats have portrayed him to be, and that she is encouraged by what she has seen from the Department of Government Efficiency.

“I find Elon Musk to be a really kindhearted, generous, charming person with great charisma,” Lake told “Finnerty.” “You know, you wouldn’t expect that because he’s so brilliant. You would think that having a conversation with him would be difficult. He’s actually incredibly interesting.

“And more than that, the entire DOGE team that I’m working with — and we just brought an additional DOGE member on — are hardworking, not particularly political. Many of them don’t really even care about the politics of it. They’re just problem-solvers.”

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