Chuck Darwin<p>Earlier this summer, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Devin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nunes</span></a>, the CEO of Trump Media and a former California congressman, <br>touched down just outside Skopje, the capital of <a href="https://c.im/tags/North" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>North</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Macedonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macedonia</span></a>.</p><p>He and a small group of other North American executives were there to talk business. </p><p>But they weren’t there to meet with representatives from another company. </p><p>A high-ranking official from the Macedonian government greeted them on the tarmac outside their private jet. </p><p>Then a police escort ferried them from the airport. </p><p>They were there to meet with the Balkan nation’s newly elected prime minister.</p><p>At the time, Prime Minister <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hristijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hristijan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mickoski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mickoski</span></a>, the leader of the country’s conservative nationalist party, <br>offered little in the way of specifics about the meeting’s purpose: <br>“For now, I would not reveal this type of details,” he told local reporters in the Balkans who covered the meeting at the time.</p><p>In a recent earnings call, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pavlovski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pavlovski</span></a>, who accompanied Nunes on the trip <br>and who is the CEO of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rumble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rumble</span></a>, a video streaming company and close partner of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a>, <br>revealed that he had discussed a cloud technology services deal with the Macedonian government.</p><p>⚠️The meeting is the first known instance of the former president’s media company dealing directly with a foreign government<br> — and in this case one that is eager for a future Trump administration’s assistance on a wide range of security, economic and diplomatic issues</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-ceo-devin-nunes-north-macedonia-truthsocial-hristijan-mickoski" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/trump-m</span><span class="invisible">edia-ceo-devin-nunes-north-macedonia-truthsocial-hristijan-mickoski</span></a></p>