Federalist D.C. Columnist Eddie Scarry interviewed Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence and U.S. ambassador to Germany under the Trump administration, this week. Here’s what Grenell had to say:
On former colleague Nikki Haley: “She knows she’s got no chance. But she’s going to go try and serve on some boards and clean up … her Trump days, so she’s the anti-Trump and the establishment type, and she’ll go on like a Netflix board or a Google board so she sees that this is all about her personal financial gain later on with the crowd that has the money and power and social life. I wouldn’t doubt that she’ll move to New York City and join that crowd.”
Trump’s biggest challenge to winning in 2024: “I think the biggest challenge is whether or not the Democrats try to make a move to replace Biden or manipulate the election somehow with an emergency or a crisis that’s manufactured. I think that’s the biggest threat: what are the Democrats going to do when they really understand that they’re losing?”
What a second successful Trump term looks like: “I would say if anyone seeking a job within the Trump administration has a Washington, D.C. address on their resume, you should throw it in the garbage … move out agencies and make sure that this permanent bureaucracy in Washington doesn’t strangle anyone who becomes president in the future.”
