Musk Figured Out Twitter Is ‘Just a Global PR Wire’: Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 21, 2019. Andrew Harrer/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Many free speech advocates have been disheartened after Elon Musk walked away from a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. They lament that the Tesla CEO’s promises to loosen content restrictions may not materialize.

But to Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes and Chairman Donald Trump—the deal doesn’t matter that much.

They both supported Musk’s purchase because it fits their mission to mitigate censorship and “give the American people their voice back,” Nunes told The Epoch Times.

“In terms of Twitter, it’s never been—as I think Elon Musk has found out—it’s just a global PR wire, it’s not a social networking site.”

Musk walked away due to concerns over its spam bots, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows, but Twitter is determined to enforce the merger agreement.

Nunes thinks that Musk realized “he couldn’t validate how many real Americans and others were actually on the platform, because there’s so many bot and spam accounts.”

Elon Musk attends an event in New York, on May 2, 2022. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

At a May 14 rally in Texas, Trump predicted Musk would not end up buying Twitter “Because you have so many fake accounts with the bots.”

“I called it early and said, ‘That deal is never going to happen,’” Trump told Breitbart in July. “We’re going to have to see what happens because they’re going to be saying, ‘You owe us $44 billion’ because I hear they have a very tight contract.”

“I see that ending up in a lot of litigation,” Trump said.

Trump was able to anticipate this because Twitter is “just a house of cards,” Nunes said.

“There’s just not a real market there. ...  You don’t want to go where you have a few million Americans every day going on to Twitter—it’s hard to know what the number is—compared to hundreds of millions of Americans, that’s where the market is,” he added.

During a speech in Alaska on July 9, while promoting Truth Social, Trump said about Musk:

“He’s got himself a mess. You know, he said the other day, ‘I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said I didn’t know that. He told me he voted for me. So he’s another [expletive] artist, but he’s not going to be buying it. Although he might later, who the hell knows what’s going to happen? He’s got a pretty rotten contract. I looked at his contract, not a good contract.”

Former U.S. President Donald Trump gives remarks during a Save America Rally at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Illinois, on June 25, 2022. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images

Musk said during a podcast at a Miami tech conference in May that he had voted “overwhelmingly” for Democrats in the past.

“Overwhelmingly. Like I’m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear,” Musk said on the show. “Now this election, I will.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Twitter for comment.