Devin Nunes is a former member of Congress who headed the Intelligence Committee at the beginning of the businessman’s first presidential term, which takes office in January.
The president-elect of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump, appointed this Saturday Devin Nunes, who runs his social network Truth, to chair an advisory board for the White House secret services.
“Devin will draw on his experience as former chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee and his key role in exposing the Russia hoax to provide me with independent assessments of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities. “, explained Trump, in a statement.
Devin Nunes is a former member of Congress who headed the Intelligence Committee at the beginning of the businessman’s first presidential term, which takes office in January.
This Republican had accused the FBI of abusing its powers to spy on a Donald Trump election campaign official, who had numerous contacts with Russia, during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Trump said in his statement that Nunes will remain Truth Social’s chief executive while leading the advisory board. The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is supposed to be an independent source on intelligence work.
The appointment comes two weeks after Trump, who is expected to be inaugurated as President on January 20, appointed Kash Patel as director of the FBI, replacing current director Christopher Wray.
Meanwhile, the President-elect told Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that he wants his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to replace Senator Marco Rubio, nominated as the next Secretary of State,
Sources familiar with the matter told the newspaper that DeSantis is seriously considering Lara Trump for the role, and that he cares deeply about the president-elect’s opinion. However, he is likely to choose someone who has held public office in that state to replace Rubio.
This week, Lara Trump resigned as vice president of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and, in a post on social media, stated that she had managed to meet the three goals she set when she took office last March: breaking fundraising records fund funds, build an “army” of poll watchers, and get millions of people to vote early.
“The work I came to do is complete and I intend to formally withdraw from the RNC at our next meeting,” he declared on Monday.
Lara Trump, married to Eric Trump, one of Donald Trump’s sons, said last month, in an interview with Fox News, that “if I am elected to another position, it will be a true honor” and, according to two family sources cited by the newspaper, wants to be a senator.
DeSantis faces a dilemma as, according to local press reports, the President-elect is considering nominating him as Secretary of Defense as the candidacy of his current nominee, Pete Hegseth, falters after he was accused of abusing a woman in California in 2017 and alcoholism.
Lara Trump assumed the vice presidency of the RNC on March 8, after receiving the support of her father-in-law, in a sign of the Trump family’s control over the Republican Party.
