WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday named his ally Devin Nunes, a former U.S. lawmaker who now runs Trump’s Truth Social social media platform, as chairman of the president’s Intelligence Advisory Committee.
Nunes, a longtime Trump defender who led the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee throughout a part of Trump’s first time period within the White House, will stay CEO of Truth Social whereas serving on the advisory board, Trump stated in a weblog publish on the platform.
As chair of the fee, Nunes alleged that the FBI had conspired in opposition to Trump throughout its investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 presidential election by which Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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“Devin will draw on his expertise as former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and his key function in exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, to supply me with impartial assessments of the effectiveness and propriety of the U.S. intelligence group’s actions,” he stated Trump. he wrote.
The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is a White House committee that gives the president with impartial assessments of the effectiveness and planning of intelligence businesses.
On Saturday, Trump additionally nominated Troy Edgar, an IBM government and former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official, because the division’s deputy secretary, and businessman Bill White as U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Doug Gillison; Editing by David Gregorio)
