Trump appoints Truth Social CEO David Nunes to lead White House intelligence advisory board

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named chief of TruthSocial Devin Nunes to serve as the chair of the president’s intelligence advisory board. The former US lawmaker was a longtime Trump defender who led the House of Representatives intelligence committee during the president-elect’s first stint at the White House. While announcing his name for the post, Trump maintained that Nunes will continue to serve as the CEO of Truth Social while serving on the advisory panel.

During his time in the intelligence committee, Nunes alleged that the FBI conspired against Trump during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections.

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“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 US Intelligence Community’s activities,” Trump wrote in a TruthSocial post on Saturday.

What Nunes’ new role will entail?

The president’s intelligence advisory board is a White House panel which offers the president an independent assessment of intelligence agencies’ effectiveness and planning.

On Saturday, Trump also made some other appointments in his incoming administration. He named IBM executive and former US Department of Homeland Security official Troy Edgar to serve as the department’s deputy secretary, and businessman Bill White to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.

Edgar was Trump’s former chief financial officer and served as an associate deputy undersecretary of management for homeland security. Meanwhile, White is the former CEO of the Intrepid Museum in New York City, the current CEO of the Constellations Group and a longtime friend of Trump.

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In his post on Truth Social, Trump mentioned that Edgar was “previously the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California, where he helped me lead the City and County revolt against Sanctuary Cities in 2018.”

With inputs from agencies.