‘Our jaws DROPPED’: Why Kari Lake waited 11 months to release alleged bribery tape

A leaked recording between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit revealed that powerful people “back east” would stop at almost nothing to get her out of the Senate race.

Lake tells Glenn Beck that she recorded it because after DeWit was persistent that he came over to talk to her instead of discussing what he had planned on the phone, she “just got a bad feeling about it.”

Lake also was under the impression that there might be a threat, asking herself why he’d want to come to her door to talk to her.

“I just thought if there’s a threat, if he’s gonna’ threaten me, I need to have this on recording,” Lake says.

After the recording was released, DeWit resigned.

“His resignation letter was bizarre,” Glenn says, adding, “Why would he resign and say I’m resigning because of her threat that she’s got more tapes?”

Lake tells Glenn that there were no more tapes.

“And that’s what is so disturbing about it, that he thinks that his behavior has been so unethical, that he thinks there’s worse stuff out there,” she says.

The tape itself was recorded 11 months ago, but Lake didn’t release it until now.

“I didn’t want to release anything, and I also didn’t listen to it. I taped it because I was afraid there was going to be a physical threat, and when there wasn’t, I just kind of put the file away and never even dealt with it,” Lake says.

It wasn’t until recently that Lake relistened to the tape with her husband and daughter, horrified that it was “so much worse” than she remembered.

“My daughter was shocked. She said, ‘Tell me that guy doesn’t work in politics anymore.’ I said, ‘He heads up the Arizona GOP,’ and she said, ‘What are you going to do about it Mom?’” Lake recalls.

“I didn’t really want to put that out, but how disappointing when your kids hear something like that, and then you just sit on it,” she adds.

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