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Former Rep. #Devin #Nunes (R-CA) once again failed at an effort to sue after being mocked by parody Twitter accounts, including one called 
"Devin Nunes' Cow."
On Monday, Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko revealed that the case against him filed by Nunes in Virginia had been dismissed after having no activity for more than three years.
Nunes previously lost a $250 million lawsuit against Twitter for alleged damages caused by the Devin Nunes' Cow account
Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism · Devin Nunes loses court case against parody Twitter cow — again
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday tapped Devin Nunes, the CEO of his social media platform Truth Social, to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, an independent group within the Executive Office that oversees the U.S. intelligence community’s compliance with the Constitution.
Nunes will continue leading Trump Media & Technology Group, a public company with a nearly $8 billion market cap. Trump is the company’s largest shareholder.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/14/trump-nunes-intelligence-advisory-board-00194388
OFFS.
Via Inner City Press:
DEVIN DISCOVERY: #Nunes Sued NBC for #Maddow Report on Russia Package Now Her Personal Devices to be Searched -
in Nunes defamation case, Magistrate Judge orders that "discovery shall be reopened for the limited purpose of conducting a search of Ms. Maddow's personal devices [for] personal email, text messages, Signal and WhatsApp conversations"
https://innercitypress.com/sdny139ccastelnunesnbcicp110424.html
innercitypress.comNunes Sued NBC for Maddow Report on Russia Package Now Her
Personal Devices SearchedInnerCityPress.com is engaged
these days in reporting on the SDNY and other courts, and still
investigative journalism about the United Nations, including the
World Bank, the IMF, the UN Development Program and the five
continents.
Wut.
Via Inner City Press:
POLITICAL DOG FIGHT: Devin #Nunes Sued NBC for Rachel #Maddow Report on #Russia Package - Now Dispute About Contents of Maddow's Personal Electronic Devices
- Inner City Press story: https://innercitypress.com/sdny139bcastelnunesnbcicp102324.html
innercitypress.comNunes Sued NBC for Maddow Report on Russia Package Now
Dispute on Personal DevicesInnerCityPress.com is engaged
these days in reporting on the SDNY and other courts, and still
investigative journalism about the United Nations, including the
World Bank, the IMF, the UN Development Program and the five
continents.
"A group of staffers filed an internal whistleblower document that accused #TrumpMedia CEO Devin #Nunes...of mismanaging the company and handing out jobs to his friends instead of more qualified people, according to ProPublica. It also accused him of mandating the company hire only foreign workers instead of Americans, describing him as 'America Last.' As a result, the complaint says, Nunes should be fired."
Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-media-whistleblowers-accuse-company-134030006.html
Yahoo News · Trump Media Whistleblowers Accuse Company of Taking ‘America Last’ Approach
NEW: An internal Truth Social complaint reviewed by ProPublica calls for the firing of CEO Devin #Nunes, alleging he has pursued an “America Last” hiring policy, “consistently lied” and made the company vulnerable to action by regulators. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-whistleblower-complaint-devin-nunes
ProPublicaTrump Media Whistleblower Blasts Company for Outsourcing Jobs Abroad as Betrayal of “America First”
More from 
ProPublica
MeidasTouch has obtained the initial Deck Report that was provided to investors in 2022
to persuade them to put their money into Trump Media stock
when the company went public.
This report shows that the information provided made wild claims about revenue projections based on data that was not only flawed,
it was fantasyland.
After the stock went public, the share prices soared due to a massively inflated valuation of the company based on projected earnings.
Their accounting firm was subsequently charged by the SEC with "massive fraud."
CEO #Devin #Nunes, who received a heafty base salary and stock equity in the startup to leave Congress to run the company,
stated publicly that they had hundreds of thousands of small "retail shareholders" who put their faith, and their money, in Trump's new business venture.
(Nunes recently dumped over $600K of his own shares, while CFO Philip Juhan recently sold $1.9 million of his shares.)
There are also multiple pending lawsuits involving the company.
At one point, the stock reached a high of $79.38 a share.
Since that time, it has steadily tanked, losing 75% of its value just in the last several months as smart investors cashed out and dumped the stock,
leaving Trump fans holding the bag.
The stock is currently trading at just over $14 a share.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/internal-docs-show-trump-media-investors
Meidas+ · Internal Docs Show Trump Media Investors Were Duped
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In a recent earnings call, Chris #Pavlovski, who accompanied #Nunes on the trip & who is the CEO of #Rumble, a video streaming company & close partner of #TrumpMedia, revealed that he had discussed a cloud technology services deal w/the Macedonian government.
The meeting is the first known instance of #Trump’s media company dealing directly w/a foreign government — & in this case one that is eager for a future Trump admin’s assistance on a wide range of #security, #economic & diplomatic issues.
Earlier this summer, #Devin #Nunes, the CEO of Trump Media and a former California congressman,
touched down just outside Skopje, the capital of #North #Macedonia.
He and a small group of other North American executives were there to talk business.
But they weren’t there to meet with representatives from another company.
A high-ranking official from the Macedonian government greeted them on the tarmac outside their private jet.
Then a police escort ferried them from the airport.
They were there to meet with the Balkan nation’s newly elected prime minister.
At the time, Prime Minister #Hristijan #Mickoski, the leader of the country’s conservative nationalist party,
offered little in the way of specifics about the meeting’s purpose:
“For now, I would not reveal this type of details,” he told local reporters in the Balkans who covered the meeting at the time.
In a recent earnings call, #Chris #Pavlovski, who accompanied Nunes on the trip
and who is the CEO of #Rumble, a video streaming company and close partner of #Trump #Media,
revealed that he had discussed a cloud technology services deal with the Macedonian government.
The meeting is the first known instance of the former president’s media company dealing directly with a foreign government
— 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
ProPublicaTrump Company CEO’s Unexplained Meeting With Balkans Leader Raises Specter of New ConflictDevin Nunes, the former congressman who runs the company behind Truth Social, traveled to North Macedonia as former President Trump vies to once again shape U.S. foreign policy.
Billionaire Republican donor’s firm brands Trump’s social media CEO ‘loser’
In an extraordinary statement, trading firm Citadel Securities accused #Devin #Nunes, chief executive of Trump Media & Technology Group, of trying to deflect blame for the company’s recent stock market woes.
TMTG hit back claiming Citadel was “world famous for screwing over” small investors.
#Ken #Griffin, the billionaire Republican donor and owner of Citadel, branded Nunes a “proverbial loser” whom the former president “would have fired on The Apprentice”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/19/ken-griffin-says-trump-social-media-ceo-loser?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Guardian · Billionaire Republican donor’s firm brands Trump’s social media CEO ‘loser’
Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump's social network over misuse of its code | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/29/mastodon-issues-30-day-ultimatum-to-trumps-social-network-over-misuse-of-its-code/
hahaha, can't even steal code correctly (from 2021, assume this has been resolved by now)
#USPol #Nunes #Mastodon
TechCrunch · Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump's social network over misuse of its code | TechCrunchFormer President Trump's new social network might be in hot water before it even launches. Mastodon, a free social media framework, alleges that Truth
An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That #Ron #Johnson Was “Doing the Bidding”of Russia
In sworn testimony before Congress, Lev #Parnas, a former Trump henchman, says the senator from Wisconsin was
“our guy in the Senate.”
On Wednesday, Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian businessman who worked closely with former New York mayor Rudy #Giuliani and other Trump associates to smear Biden in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, and who eventually went to #prison for his wrongdoing, said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee, 
“The American people have been lied to, by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various individuals in government and media positions, all of whom worked to create a web of falsehood. They did this purely to serve their own interests, knowing that it would undermine the strength of our nation.”
In damning testimony at the hearing, which House Republicans had organized in a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to develop their Ukraine-related argument for impeaching Biden, Parnas explained,
The only information ever pushed about the Bidens and Ukraine has come from Russia and Russian agents, which everyone sitting here today knows.
FBI informant Alexander #Smirnov has admitted to getting all his so-called intelligence on the Bidens from Russia.
According to their own statements, federal prosecutors found him guilty of “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections.”
And as recently as November 2023, a number of Ukrainian politicians sympathetic to Russia were implicated as having helped funnel false information about the Bidens to Giuliani while also being connected to a Russian foreign influence network.
During more than a year of jetting around Europe, as part of what he described as a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on Biden before the 2020 election, Parnas said,
I found precisely zero proof of the Bidens’ criminality.
Instead, what I learned in that timeframe was the true nature of the conspiracy that the Kremlin was forcing through Russian, Ukrainian, American, and other channels to interfere in our elections.
Ultimately this was meant to benefit Trump’s reelection, which would in turn benefit Vladimir #Putin.
Which brings us back to #Ron #Johnson.
After the senator dismissed his briefing from the FBI, Johnson moved to release a report that The New York Times described as “little more than a rehashing six weeks before Election Day of unproven allegations that echo an active Russian #disinformation campaign and have been pushed by Mr. Trump.”
Where was Johnson getting his material?
Parnas told the House Committee on Wednesday that Giuliani and his allies convened 
“regular strategy meetings at BLT Steak in Washington, D.C.,”
and “I was told in that setting that Senator Ron Johnson would be 
‘our guy in the Senate,’ responsible for pushing all the information we were getting. But he would actually end up spreading unverified conspiracy theories instead.”
“Every person integral to this shadow diplomacy knew that the Biden corruption rumors were baseless,” Parnas testified.
Then-Congressman #Devin #Nunes, Senator #Ron #Johnson, and many other individuals understood that they were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for #John #Solomon, #Sean #Hannity, and media personnel, particularly at #Fox #News, who used that narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 election.
They are still doing this today, as we approach the 2024 election.
After Parnas testified, US Representative Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) followed up on the allegation regarding Johnson.
Referencing the statement that the Wisconsinite would be the group’s “‘guy in the Senate’ to push all the information,” Frost asked,
“What did you mean by that?”
“Senator Ron Johnson was our guy in the Senate,” replied Parnas.
“It was told to me that, when we pushed the information, he was going to push it in the halls of Congress.”
Frost continued, “So when the media was getting skeptical about pushing disinformation
—after they’ve proven it wrong time and time again
—the plan was to have a US senator, Ron Johnson, to push that information even further?”
“Correct,” said Parnas, “because we had Congressman Nunes already doing it, so Senator Ron Johnson jumped on board.”
The Nation · An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That Ron Johnson Was “Doing the Bidding” of RussiaIn sworn testimony before Congress, a former Trump henchman says the senator from Wisconsin was “our guy in the Senate.”
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Trump Media & Technology Group and its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition,
have both been rocked by legal warfare.
Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of #deception and #impropriety acrossfour lawsuits in three states.
After Trump was booted from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, three men played pivotal roles in building and promoting Trump Media as an online challenger against the “cancel culture” of Big Tech:
#Andy #Litinsky and #Wes #Moss, former “Apprentice” contestants who co-founded and launched Truth Social;
and #Patrick #Orlando, who as chief executive of Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, offered Trump’s company a path to investor cash.
But all three are now leading a rebellion of their own, confronting and potentially imperiling a trophy of Trump’s post-presidential ambitions.
Their lawsuits call into question how Trump Media’s shares will be distributed, and a legal victory could chip away at Trump’s equity during a time when he is facing a cash crunch.
And the cases threaten to erode Trump’s grasp on a stake in the post-merger company potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars
— a possible financial lifeline, given that he owes more than $500 million in legal fines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/21/truth-social-trump-merger-lawsuits/
The Washington Post · Trump Media, launched after an insurrection, faces rebellion of its own
Donald Trump's Truth Social is set to become part of a publicly traded company after a long-delayed merger was approved.
On Friday, a shell company created solely to buy Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, approved the merger, The New York Times reported.
Trump's net worth is set to jump more than $3 billion from the deal, based on his large stake in the social-media platform he helped create in the wake of his post-January 6, 2021, Capitol-riot bans on mainstream platforms.
Trump won't be able to sell his shares for at least six months unless the company's board waives a previous lockup agreement.
But if Trump wants to access his money sooner, it may not be a problem: The Washington Post pointed out the board would be stacked with Trump's allies.
Former congressman #Devin #Nunes, who was already the CEO of Truth Social's parent company, is set to become the CEO of the combined companies.
Donald #Trump #Jr., Trump's eldest son, also plans to be on the board.
The former Trump Cabinet officials #Robert #Lighthizer, who served as Trump's US trade representative, and #Linda #McMahon, who served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration, are also set to be on the board.
As soon as Monday, the new company could be relisted on the Nasdaq under the symbol #DJT, the miscreant's initials.
However there are also lawsuits between shareholders that could complicate the company's future.
The prospective windfall comes at a critical time for Trump -- He faces mounting costs from his legal fees and fallout from other cases.
By Monday, the criminal defendant must post an appeal bond covering the more than $456 million he owes New York state from a civil fraud judgment that Trump wants to continue to fight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-truth-social-merger-going-public-stock-value-2024-3
Insider · Truth Social is going public, boosting Trump's wealth by $3 billion
I thought that was in! Damn it I really want Darwin to get a worldy
#Nuñes
Friday Truth Social filed a $3.78 Billion defamation suit against @washingtonpost
Today is see that the lawyer in the WaPo suit is the same guy who helped Devin Nunes Sue CNN, and Cows on Twitter.
This is a crap case. UNLIKE the #Dominion , #EJeanCarroll and #RubyFreeman #defamation cases. When asked the cow Devin sued thinks that #Nunes is filing lawsuits to scare off critics, tie them in legal knots and either “bankrupt and/or wear them out emotionally.”
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@drewharwell "This month, the company’s chief executive, the former Republican congressman Devin Nunes, sued Wilkerson for defamation in a Florida circuit court, claiming he had been subjected to “anxiety,” “insecurity,” “mental anguish” and “emotional distress” as a result of Wilkerson’s comments."
I'm sure this will go as well as all of #Nunes' *other* lolsuits.
I wonder who is paying for the many, many, failed suits he has filed. If he just wants to waste money as a hobby, there must be easier ways.
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5/ Back to transcripts:
#Hutchinson recounts a bizarre episode in which House Intel Com GOP, including #Nunes & staffers, carted over classified docs to WH for Meadows & #Cipollone to review.
CHENEY remarks this is pretty unusual for House GOP to truck classified docs to WH when they have their own SCIF.
Trump Labor Sec Eugene Scalia & Transport Sec. Elaine Chao said they don't recall discussions of invoking 25th Amendmt.
But Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin recalls such a conversation