QAnon-affiliated podcast airs Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes interview on same day Trump names him to chair President’s Intelligence Advisory Board

DAVID MARC FISHMAN (HOST): Now that Trump is picking his different nominees — you work very, very closely with Kash [Patel]. What do you think of Kash coming in as the FBI director? Do you think this is a good move by Trump?

DEVIN NUNES (TRUTH SOCIAL CEO): Well, I mean —

FISHMAN: No, tell the truth.

NUNES: Your audience all knows this. So — and you know this, but, you know, look, Kash is a close friend of mine. He was a lead investigator on the Russia hoax. He is very qualified. 

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So I would argue that, you know, he has the type and breadth of experience that the FBI needs, because we have to have a — look, these are not my numbers. These are the fake news numbers that 41% of the people, you know, have — don’t — or only 41% have trust in the FBI, which — it’s fake news so that means it’s probably lower than that. 

FISHMAN: Right. 

NUNES: I don’t know how anybody can trust the FBI. What did President Trump say the other day? That — I think they asked him if he was going to replace Wray and he just said, “He broke into my home and then when I nearly got killed and shot, he said that I was hit by shrapnel.” I mean, you can’t have an FBI like that. I mean, it’s just — there’s too many — you know, crime is on the rise. It’s going to continue to be on the rise with all the people that got into this country illegally.

The FBI just needs a complete, just new leadership at the helm. The ship needs to be righted, and we need to focus on going after criminals, not, like, political targeting that happened with, you know, my staff back in — this was back, remember, it’s 2017 and ‘18 that they were doing this. This is not — that’s what, eight years ago.

FISHMAN: Right. 

NUNES: So.

FISHMAN: So what do you make of Wray saying that he’s going to leave before Trump fires him?

NUNES: Well, it was an interesting — it was interesting that Trump nominated someone when there wasn’t even a vacancy at FBI, but I just don’t see, you know, how the guy can stay. I mean, he should have resigned probably already, but whatever.

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NUNES: If you’re going to be corrupting the intelligence agencies or any part of government, like, Trump’s going to be — I think he’s not going to hold back if he finds malfeasance in these agencies.

FISHMAN: So do you think he has enough time to drain the entire swamp? I mean, you — you’ve been in government. You saw what was there. And, I’m sure seeing over these many, many years, people are starting to understand and realize that, yeah, they knew there was corruption there. But now you see it. It’s like it’s really bad. I mean, I think people have seen much more than they ever wanted to see within these last four years of how bad government really is. And you’ve been there. Does he have enough time to drain the swamp?

NUNES: Look, there’s always going to be a swamp, right? Unless you believe in global warming, then maybe there won’t be a swamp. Maybe it’ll go away.

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NUNES: I just think his appointments top to bottom this time seem to be, you know, just — he knows who the bad guys are, so I think he’s not — I mean, look. There’ll be some mistakes. There’ll be some jerk that wants to write a book that’ll get fired or what have you, but, I think for the most part, he’s got a lot of really good people that he’s picked so far at the top. And, obviously, I’m excited about John Ratcliffe, who I worked closely with on the Russia hoax, Kash Patel, FBI. John Ratcliffe has been nominated for CIA. And then you have Pam Bondi, who I spent a lot of time in Florida, which is our headquarters. So, you know, she did a great job as Florida attorney general. And, so she’ll be, I think, great running attorney general for the United States. So that’s a nice team right there to start to clean up some of the mess.