Do you remember Devin Nunes, the failed fake Republican farmer who, while representing a California Congressional district, made a midnight run to Donald Trump’s White House allegedly pass along confidential information his committee found regarding one of the early Trump Administration scandals? Well, he’s now the CEO of Trump’s failing social media platform (Trump’s fourth attempt at breaking into online media) but still believes he has political power. Oh, and he’s suing a fictitious cow for defamation but has udderly [sic] no chance of winning.
Well, now Nunes claims that because the Department of Justice requested, received and executed a court-issued search warrant for classified information and other government material Trump stashed at Mar-a-Lago, Republicans must reopen a series of investigations into things like Benghazi, Hillary’s buttery males, and various other things that Nunes-led committees held dozens of hearings are (back in 2016) because obviously the Department of Justice is corrupt and cannot be trusted by the American people because they’re enforcing the law against a private citizen who once had a political career, much like Nunes himself.
The other aspect of this story that needs to be noted: This was done on “Kash’s Corner,” a show on The Epoch Times network hosted by former chief of staff to the Department of Defense Kash Patel. Patel is a little-discussed figure from the Trump era that’s the personification of that administration’s valuation of abject loyalty over competence.
Patel was inserted into the DOD to implement Trump’s dictatorial desires for the military, only to be dead-ended by members of the military loyal to the Constitution, not Trump. He was rumored to be appointed as the acting head of the Central Intelligence Agency toward the end of the Trump reign, but thankfully was blocked.
An absolute Trump loyalist, Patel now has a show on The Epoch Times, a right-wing disinformation site owned by a literal conservative Chinese cult. He’s literally getting paid by the Chinese to spew misinformation. Such a transformation–from one of the highest ranks of the US national security apparatus to the mouthpiece for a foreign-owned propaganda network–is practically unheard of–well, not including all those people working at Fox. Still, most senior national security people from previous administrations go to think tanks, join defense contractors, or become international envoys. But not Trump administration personnel: they go to The Epoch Times.