Trump’s ultimate yes man: how Devin Nunes embraced the role he was long accused of playing

Congressman poised to helm Trump's media company is poster child for the notion that, in today's politics, extreme partisanship pays

For the first and perhaps the only time in his pugnacious political career, the California congressman and noted Trump apologist Devin Nunes is inspiring some kind of unanimity across party lines.

When news broke on Monday that Nunes was retiring from Congress to become chief executive of the fledgling Trump Media & Technology Group, nobody on the left or the right doubted he'd landed where he belonged. After 19 years as a reliably rock-ribbed Republican legislator, Nunes told his supporters that he wasn't giving up on fighting his political enemies, just pursuing it by other means" - and for once those enemies took him at his word.