Trump picks TruthSocial CEO Devin Nunes to lead intelligence advisory board
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump’s TruthSocial platform, as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump’s TruthSocial platform, as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
“I am pleased to announce that I will appoint TruthSocial CEO Devin Nunes as Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which consists of distinguished citizens from outside of the Federal Government,” Trump announced on TruthSocial.
Nunes, a key Trump ally and former representative from California, left Congress in 2021 to become the CEO of Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs TruthSocial. During his time in Congress, Nunes chaired the House Intelligence Committee and was one of Trump’s most staunch allies.
As chair of the Intelligence Committee, Nunes released a memo in 2018 alleging an FBI conspiracy against Trump and raising questions about the bureau’s surveillance of one of Trump’s 2016 campaign aides. The memo received pushback from some Democrats, who called it “deliberately misleading.”
Trump also wrote: “While continuing his leadership of Trump Media & Technology Group, Devin will draw on his experience as former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and his key role in exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, to provide me with independent assessments of the effectiveness and propriety of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s activities. Congratulations Devin!”
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