Devin Nunes and Trump Media and Technology Group Take on Silicon Valley

Nunes’ goal is to make Truth Social the central node in a pro-free speech communications infrastructure.

The effort to destroy Joe Rogan helps illuminate the nature of the current political battlefield. It’s not about normal partisan politics. Rogan isn’t a Republican. In December he said that if Michelle Obama ran for president in 2024 she’d beat Donald Trump.

Rogan is a thoughtful and curious interviewer who has attracted an enormous following of 11 million listeners, making his podcast one of the biggest in the world. The Left is going after Rogan to test-run a kind of political power never before so successfully exercised in America—autocracy. If the Democratic Party and its allies in the press and social media can topple one of the biggest media voices in the world, they will have shown they can shut down anyone.

What’s needed is a platform that guarantees freedom of speech for America’s pro-America majority.

Here’s where Devin Nunes steps into the fight. He retired from his Central California congressional seat in December to become Chief Executive Officer of the Trump Media and Technology Group. Τhe most pressing project there is Truth Social, a social media platform that will challenge established, and increasingly autocratic brands, that are in partnership with the U.S. political faction led by Joe Biden and his former employer Barack Obama.

“Social media and big tech represent an ideological battlefield,” says Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “And because these platforms are now inherently political, it’s good to have someone like Nunes who knows the stakes and the lay of the land. He understands that nothing is normal when it comes to these social media platforms, they are ideological.”

The plan is to have Truth Social ready to go by Spring, in plenty of time for the November midterm elections. Nunes served nine full terms in Congress and stepped down during his 10th. According to colleagues, he believed he would be more helpful designing the communication infrastructure that would allow Americans to communicate with each other and ensure space for elected officials and candidates to message the American public without interference.

“It couldn’t have been an easy choice for him,” says author and Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson, also a neighbor of Nunes’ in California’s central valley. “If Republicans take back the House in November, he would have been in line to become chairman of the Ways and Means committee,” one of the House’s most important positions, with jurisdiction over taxing and other revenue-raising measures. “But Devin thinks he can do more for conservatives and the country by ensuring Republicans and others fighting Orwellian censorship have a way to communicate without being censored.”

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