We all know Devin Nunes by this point. Some of you may recall the so-called “Nunes Memo.” This is also the guy who told everyone to go out and eat at their favorite restaurant in March 2020. Earlier this year Trump awarded Nunes with the Medal of Freedom for his role in “unearth[ing] the crime of the century” and “thwart[ing] a plot to take down a sitting United States president.” What a joke.
The Trump water-carrier has no chance of getting re-elected in his district in 2022, so he has decided to go all-in on Trump. Here is Jonathan Weisman at The New York Times:
Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican who emerged as one of former President Donald J. Trump’s most loyal and pugnacious allies, announced on Monday that he would resign from Congress after 19 years to become the chief executive officer of Mr. Trump’s new media and technology company.
Mr. Nunes faced almost impossible odds in being re-elected to the Central Valley district that his family has farmed for three generations. A new map emerging from an independent citizens’ redistricting commission was almost certain to flip it from a district Mr. Trump won handily to one President Biden would have won.
But political analysts and politicians in the district had predicted that Mr. Nunes — who was the chairman, then the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee during the Trump administration — would jump to a newly created, Republican-friendly district. That would have allowed him to continue his congressional career and assume the helm of the powerful Ways and Means Committee if Republicans took control of the House, as they are favored to do.
Mr. Nunes’s decision to take over Mr. Trump’s fledgling media enterprise instead of the influential House panel that writes tax and health care policy signals where he thinks power lies in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
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