President-elect Donald Trump named former California Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board in a series of announcements on Saturday.
Nunes has been a Trump loyalist and is the CEO of the Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs the president-elect’s social media company Truth Social.
“I am pleased to nominate Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes as Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which is comprised of distinguished citizens outside the Federal Government,” Trump posted in his diary. advertisement on Truth Social. “While Trump continues to lead the Media & Technology Group, Devin’s experience as former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and in exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax will be instrumental in providing independent assessments of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the activities of the US Intelligence Community. .”
In this April 15, 2021, file photo, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes speaks at a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, DC.
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Nunes represented California in the House from 2003 to 2022. He served as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019, as well as from 2019 until his resignation from Congress on January 1, 2022, to lead Truth Social. Nunes will continue in his role at the president-elect’s company as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, established in 1956, assists the president by providing independent analysis of the intelligence community and its effectiveness. ability of US agencies to meet the “intellectual needs of the nation”.
In addition to Nunes, Trump designated Longtime friend and donor Bill White as US Ambassador to Belgium and Troy Edgar to be his deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Now CEO of Constellations Group, White was president of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum before resigning due to financial mismanagement. He has denied any wrongdoing. White, also a member of the Log Cabin Republicans, organized multiple pro-Trump LGBTQ fundraisers and events this past election.
Edgar, now an IBM executive, was Trump’s DHS chief financial officer and associate deputy secretary for Homeland Security.
