End of era as Trump administration guts Radio Free Europe and VOA

Without us, the nearly 50 million people in closed societies who depend on us for accurate news and information each week won’t have access to the truth about America and the world,

Capus continued

We’ve been shut down. I’m out of a job,

one VOA staffer told independent Russian news outlet Agentstvo, adding

For the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced,

he wrote

The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years. Handing our adversaries a win would make them stronger and America weaker,

the statement said

Lake on Saturday sent a letter, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, to Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty’s CFO Joseph Lataille terminating federal grant funding,

the RFE/RL reported