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Zorro

(16,585 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 01:37 PM Apr 2022

Devin Nunes Flops in Fox Grilling About Trump's Truth Social Debacle

The Trump toady peddled outlandish positivity about his flailing app but couldn’t hack serious questions even from the friendly Fox Business Network.

Truth Social CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling on Thursday morning, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up.

Over the past week, Truth Social has faced a bumpy launch, top executives fleeing the company, a parent acquisition company whose stock price has plummeted, claims of censorship, and the scorn of unhappy users over former President Donald Trump still not using the platform. All these compounding problems left even the traditionally obsequious Trump ally and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and her on-air colleagues with serious questions about the dumpster fire of a social-media app.

During a chat with Bartiromo’s FBN program, Nunes tossed out outlandish claims in defense of Truth Social, including that the Trump-created platform is home to more “interactions” than Twitter—the immensely popular site that the twice-impeached president, who is banned from tweeting, so clearly seeks to rip off.

“It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town,” Nunes declared. “There’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours,” he laughably added, failing to provide any concrete numbers. “Our interactions are already beating Twitter.”

Bartiromo seemed unconvinced.

“At the same time, there are a lot of people who can’t even log in to see where they are in the waitlist,” she remarked, referring to how many users still wait in a queue of several hundred thousand simply just to complete a login for the app.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-absolutely-flops-in-fox-grilling-about-trumps-truth-social-debacle
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Devin Nunes Flops in Fox Grilling About Trump's Truth Social Debacle (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2022 OP
"My cow ate the software." grumpyduck Apr 2022 #1
🐄 underpants Apr 2022 #3
THIS is the post of the day. MissMillie Apr 2022 #6
Devin, TS is headed for bankruptcy. We want to know where you hid its money. NCjack Apr 2022 #2
"It's clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town," Ray Bruns Apr 2022 #4
Devin Moo-nes shows that even Fox has a bullshit limit lame54 Apr 2022 #5
How Soon Before Devin Goes Down In Flames As TFG Blames Him For This Failure?...... global1 Apr 2022 #7
K&R UTUSN Apr 2022 #8
And out of however-many there are on the wait list, I'd bet Buns_of_Fire Apr 2022 #9

Ray Bruns

(4,801 posts)
4. "It's clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town,"
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 01:52 PM
Apr 2022

I haven't seen this level of delusion since Captain Queeg testified about the strawberries.

global1

(25,991 posts)
7. How Soon Before Devin Goes Down In Flames As TFG Blames Him For This Failure?......
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 02:14 PM
Apr 2022

Devin was trying to put a positive spin on things hoping that TFG believes him.

We all know that TFG can't take the fall for a failure here - and that Devin is the most likely candidate to get thrown under the bus.

Hey Devin - the bus is coming for you.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,000 posts)
9. And out of however-many there are on the wait list, I'd bet
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 03:28 PM
Apr 2022

that a fair percentage of them are just patiently waiting with a full set of cow pictures, dancing *rump gifs, and even less-flattering pics of ol' Fishylips himself, just waiting to share them with MAGAt world for their enjoyment and worship.

Sure, they'd only get one in before being "cancelled", but that's what makes the Intertubes fun!

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