Fox Business guest calls out Devin Nunes' cow-eyed lies about Trump's failing Truth Social platform
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Former California congressman and pretend-cow bête noire Devin Nunes appeared on the Leni Riefenstahl White Power Hour Thursday morning to tell lies so outlandish they would shame Donald Trump. Or, well, maybe not Donald Trump, so much as someone whose jaw doesn’t unhinge when he swallows whole rotisserie chickens.
Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, who was actually once journalism-adjacent before dedicating herself full time to bigoted bath salts hallucinations, invited Nunes onto Mornings with Maria to respond to grotesquely rich dude Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of a 9.2% stake in Twitter.
Instead, Nunes took it as a chance to set the record straight about the flailing and failing Trump vanity project Truth Social, for which Nunes left Congress to become CEO.
It was fucking weird, man.
Check it out:
Transcript!
BARTIROMO: “Joining me right now is the CEO of Trump Media and Technology Group. He is former California congressman Devin Nunes. Devin, it’s great to see you. Thanks very much for being here. What is your reaction to Elon Musk taking a 9% stake in one of your competitors, certainly, Twitter?”
NUNES: “Well, I think it’s very interesting, because you know, the goal that President Trump has, and what I have, and our team here at Truth Social, is to open the internet back up so that the American people can get their voice back. So it’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town. They desperately need Elon Musk to be there so, it’s probably something that Elon wants to do.
I think he probably believes in free speech like we do, but at the same time there’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours where we’re just in our beginning stages as we continue to test and bring people on day by day. Our interactions are already beating Twitter. And so Elon’s going to have a lot of work to do there, but we want everybody. We see Truth Social as something like a rising tide that lifts all boats. We want people to get their voice back, and at Truth Social we’re doing that, and it’s working.”
Sure, Devin, and Russia has generously rid Kyiv of its “Jewish Nazis,” Nancy Pelosi was primarily responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection, and carob is just as good as chocolate. That all tracks.
Of course, down here on the reality-based community of Planet Earth, Truth Social is failing hard. It’s like crickets and tumbleweeds got together to create an elite strike force of mutant tumble-crickets that’s swiftly occupying abandoned Jazzercise franchises across the upper Midwest.
In fact, it sucks so profoundly, even Trump isn’t using it.
Insider offered this, just one day before Nunes’ nonsense:
Former President Donald Trump might be joining the conservative social media platform Gettr following the lackluster performance of his Truth Social app.
Trump has “privately fumed” about Truth Social’s failure to attract a sizeable audience since its launch in February, according to The Washington Post, which cited an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
The source also told The Post that the former president is now considering joining Gettr—a competitor to Truth Social that claims it is “founded on the principles of free speech.”
Oh, gawd. That’s too perfect.
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Then again, not everyone in Fox-land is as obtuse as Bartiromo. Just six minutes after Nunes fired the gaslight up to 11, he was gainsaid by Lou Basenese, a Wall Street analyst who had previously claimed Truth Social was “dead on arrival.”
“In tech, you have to move fast, break things, and build it,” said Basenese. “You guys are moving slow, there’s no visibility on when it’s going to get built. My question to you is this: If Elon Musk lets Trump back on Twitter, what is the reason for Truth Social at that point? Because he has 88 million followers there … So would President Trump go back on Twitter if allowed, and at that point, what do you do with the business that you’re trying to build?”
After that, Basenese and Nunes had a little bicker about whether Twitter really is the “ghost town” Nunes claims. To be clear, it isn’t (second tweet).
I’d be willing to bet almost anything that Trump told Nunes he has to get better at being on the teevee, and that’s how this Orwellian apologia on behalf of Poof Social—the amazing disappearing Twitter knockoff—ensued. And Bartiromo just sat there, as if the stuff Nunes was saying bore any resemblance to things currently happening in consensus reality.
Of course, most of Fox’s viewers will buy this spin—until they actually try to sign up for Truth Social, that is. The waitlist is looooonnng, and engagement is low, low, low, low, low, low, low. And while Fox viewers regularly gobble up lies like chirping baby birds, it’s likely even they would realize what a disaster Trump’s latest business venture is—if they ever got an up-close look.
Then again, maybe not.
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