[quote=Cheyenne]This piques my curiosity. But, I'd have to see more than a WaPo hit piece to get an understanding on the subject. Do you commonly check stories out beyond the original source before accepting them as fact? WaPo, clearly, has a biased agenda. How is it that they claim to know what Grennell is saying behind closed doors? [/quote]
As it turns out, I had no idea about what was taking place with Richard Grennell Globetrotting at the behest of Donald Trump; I've since checked some and have found that he actually does represent himself as an official United States worldwide delegate representing Trump; if it confuses the hell out of me, just imagine world citizenry meeting with him or his team!
In this particular case, I searched about quite a bit: From what I can gather, Trump is managing Grennell 'behind closed drapes', unbeknownst even to Right-Wing media sources; it seems that Donald Trump is running an international "shadow-operation" headed by Grennell who represents NOTHING/NO ONE but Trump, if for no other reason than NEITHER one of them have been CURRENTLY elected to anything! FWIW, like it or not, I don't see the WaPo exposure as a "hit piece" but ONLY as a particularly timely reporting piece, NOTHING more; there is NO EMBELLISHMENT whatsoever in the report!
Here's a bit more than I could find in the Washington Post, the ONLY sane reporting site beyond the NY Times that I'm aware of:
"Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.
"Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders, attacking President Biden and offering a glimpse at what U.S. foreign policy could be like in a second Trump term"
By Beth Reinhard, Jon Swaine and Aaron Schaffer
March 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
"After an anti-corruption crusader unexpectedly won last year’s presidential election in Guatemala, democracy teetered on the edge in the Central American country. Amid law enforcement raids on election offices and threats of violence, the Biden administration worked feverishly to lay the groundwork for a peaceful transfer of power.
"But not Richard Grenell, a former diplomat and intelligence official in Donald Trump’s administration, who arrived in Guatemala in January, days before the new president was to be sworn in — and threw his support behind a right-wing campaign to undermine the election.
"Grenell met with a hard-line group that sued to block the inauguration. The group thanked him for his “visit and trust.” He defended Guatemalan officials who had seized ballot boxes in an effort to overturn a vote declared “free and fair” by the United States and international observers, and he attacked the U.S. State Department’s sanctions against hundreds of anti-democratic actors.
“They are trying to intimidate conservatives in Guatemala,” Grenell said in a television interview. “This is all wrapped into this kind of phony concern about democracy.”
- - - Apparently IF NOTHING ELSE: "overthrowing elections is a big thing with Trump and Grennell. . .