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Last year former San Joaquin Valley congressman Devin Nunes said a New York prosecutor’s fraud case against Donald Trump reeked of “corruption.”

The Tulare County resident and former chairman of the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee claimed the New York case reflected a “police state” in America under Democratic control.

Now Nunes himself is facing complaints that he is running Trump’s social media company with an iron fist — and doing it poorly.

Nunes was the longtime Republican congressman representing Tulare County and parts of Fresno County, including Clovis. In late 2021, he announced he would leave the House of Representatives to take a post with Trump’s social media firm.

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During his time in office, Nunes was infamous for making outlandish statements, like how environmentalists were communists wanting to control water use by Valley farmers.

Fast forward to this month: As reported by the online news site ProPublica, several top executives at Trump Media and Technology Group were forced out when a whistleblower report accused Nunes of mismanagement. Nunes is the CEO of Trump Media, the company Trump created to have a social media presence after the then Twitter (now called X) and Facebook had banned him following the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the U.S. Capitol.

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