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Former ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell on Sunday claimed Susan Rice, tapped by the President-elect Joe Biden to run the Foreign Policy Council, will really act as the “shadow president” in the administration. In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Grenell said “you need to watch Susan Rice very closely.” “She will be the shadow president,” he claimed. “We have a president-elect in Joe Biden who clearly is not the Joe Biden of 10 years ago. He's not even the Joe Biden of 5 years ago when it comes to policy issues. “We saw him raise his hand...

Richard Grenell, the former acting director of national intelligence, said on Sunday that he was very concerned with Joe Biden and his national security advisor pick with respect to U.S.-China policy.Mark Levin, the host of the Fox News’ “Life Liberty & Levin” show, suggested that Biden is “exactly the wrong man, at the wrong time, to be anywhere near creating and leading American foreign policy” because his family is “so bought off in so many ways by the Communist Chinese government.”“I’m very concerned about what not only Joe Biden and his family, how they’ve responded to China in the past,”...

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday mangled his rollout of Pete Buttigieg as the “first” gay Cabinet nominee — using a female name for Buttigieg’s husband and omitting mention of President Trump having named the first gay Cabinet-level member. Biden noted his fondness for Buttigieg’s husband “Kirsten” during a speech in Wilmington, Del., as he formally named the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor as his nominee for transportation secretary. Biden also snubbed Ric Grenell, who Trump celebrated this year as the first gay Cabinet member when he worked three months as acting Director of National Intelligence.

Ric Grenell: "Look, I think it’s even worse than just hypocrisy. We are accustomed to hypocrisy in Washington, D.C. But you said it right, Sean, that look, Russia is a problem but China is a crisis and we have known that it has been a crisis for a very long time. I think there needs to be a gang of intelligent group investigations, certainly an acting chairman, Marco Rubio should immediately call the intelligence committee together. They should get a confidential classified briefing on what Eric Swalwell new and how much did he give away. Because the reality is he...

Richard Grenell drops major hint…Excellent discussion with Richard Grenell an hour ago on Newsmax ‘Hunter Biden, Swalwell story is just the beginning, more is coming out’ Video at link.

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said that China is a "top" security concern and claimed there is "much more" to U.S.-Chinese relations.

Grenell berated reporters for ignoring the significance of the deal with Kosovo and Serbia. “I don’t know if you can find it on a map, but this is atrocious, I have to tell you guys,” he said. “You might be too young to understand what this issue is about; maybe the older journalists should step up and say this is a big deal.”

The Talk Shows August 30th, 2020 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager; Lara Trump, Campaign Adviser to the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump; Thomas Peters, RumbleUp, the first peer-to-peer texting platform for Republicans. Panel: Guy Benson, political editor of Townhall.com; Gillian Turner, news correspondent on FOX News; Charles Lane, Amazon Bezos Post reporter.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), Hiden’ Biden campaign Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, PBS White House correspondent; Hallie Jackson, Chief White House correspondent...

Trump's ex-acting intelligence director Richard Grenell accused Democrat Biden of scheming to take down Trump’s first national security adviser. “Former VP Biden asked intelligence officials to uncover the hidden information on Trump’s incoming NSA [Gen Michael Flynn] three weeks before the inauguration,” Grenell said.....referencing revelations by Flynn’s legal team of disgraced ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok's note. The 1/4/17 note implicates Biden in selecting the Logan Act as a rationale for keeping active an investigation the FBI was prepared to close. “VP: ‘Logan Act’,” the note written by Strzok says. Grenell condemned Obama’s inquiry. “I saw Democrats’ entire case for Russian...

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell says President Trump’s decision to include him in his cabinet had nothing to do with his sexuality or “identity politics.” Speaking to Breitbart News on Saturday, Grenell, the first openly gay US cabinet member, said Trump “doesn’t care about these types of issues” when considering whom to appoint for a position. Grenell, who served as US ambassador to Germany and recently joined the Republican National Committee to handle LGBT outreach, said the commander-in-chief focuses on who is best qualified for the job.

@RichardGrenell: So fewer people died because they took the drug @realDonaldTrump suggested.... Thank you, POTUS for doing the right thing even in the face of a DC culture attacking you no matter what you do. Citing: @CNN A surprising new study found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped Covid-19 patients better survive in the hospital.

Back in May acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking of General Mike Flynn in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The names of the officials who were involved in unmasking General Flynn in his calls to Kislyak in late 2016-2017 were released by Grenell in May. The names included top Obama officials like Joe Biden and Susan Rice. The Obama administration was spying on General Flynn as he was performing the role of top advisor to incoming President Donald Trump.

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday that his time in the Trump administration has shown him that the great political struggle is no longer between Republicans and Democrats, but between the District of Columbia and the rest of the U.S. In his first TV interview since leaving the administration, Grenell explained a tweet he posted Saturday in response to criticism of Trump from former Defense Secretary James Matts. "The fact of the matter is," Grenell said, "we have a real problem in Washington, D.C., because it’s a system that it no longer is...

I happen to think Rick Grenell is a real star of the Trump Administration..to bad he's leaving but I suspect you will see him again in National Politics..... Rick Grenell and Dave Rubin are both gay men who are doing great work in advancing the cause and help President Trump drain the swamp... Watch this relatively short interview and see what you think, I just wish he would have stayed on until after the election....

Deep State operatives are leaking false stories on the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts ahead of a huge release in order to control the narrative. Former Acting DNI Ric Grenell already declassified the Flynn transcripts and John Ratcliffe, who was sworn is as the new Director of National Intelligence is set to release the transcripts soon! So now the Deep State is working with the media to spin, spin, spin. NBC News hack Geoff Bennett reported on Thursday afternoon that according to a ‘former Trump admin official,’ the Flynn-Kislyak calls that Grenell declassified are written summaries of the calls, not audiotapes. Deep State...

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell will swear in Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as President Donald Trump’s permanent DNI on Tuesday. Though he led the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for just three months, U.S. intelligence officials told the Daily Caller that Grenell prioritized dozens of initiatives that restructured the intelligence community and, in Trump’s own words, gave him an opportunity to “break the deep state.” Grenell — a Trump loyalist dating back to the 2016 campaign — was so effective in his interim position that the president referred to him as...

The outgoing intelligence director thinks Sen. Warner's philosophy of transparency is 'based solely on political advantage' Outgoing acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is dismissing a top Democratic senator's insinuations that he had harmed the U.S. intelligence community by declassifying the names of individuals who had requested Michael Flynn's unmasking. Last week, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner asked Grenell in a letter to explain why he had revealed the names of numerous Obama administration officials, including Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, who had requested that Flynn's name be unmasked in intelligence reports. Flynn has been at...

Cuts of hundreds of staff members at the White House and at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have curbed leaks and stifled anti-Trump activists within both agencies, according to senior administration officials. Acting DNI Richard Grenell, who stepped down Tuesday, streamlined ODNI in his four months in office by reducing staff and contractor positions by as much as 400. Mr. Grenell said other positive reforms during his brief stint included declassifying congressional testimony showing no collusion between Trump officials and Russia in 2016, and imposing rules to protect the identities of U.S. officials inadvertently captured in overseas...

Richard Grenell has declassified a new batch of Russia probe documents on his way out as acting director of national intelligence, leaving the decision on whether to make those files public up to newly sworn-in Director John Ratcliffe. The documents include transcripts of phone calls that then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak had in December 2016, during the presidential transition period. Grenell said publicly last week that he was in the process of declassifying those files, after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., asked that he do so. Fox News has learned that the...

Tomorrow morning ends the tenure of Richard “Ric” Grenell as the acting Director of National Intelligence. At 12:15pm DNI John Ratcliffe will be sworn-in [LINK] and the declassification/sunlight baton will be passed to senate confirmed DNI John Ratcliffe. On the topic of the FBI capture and use of the December 29, 2016, Flynn-Kislyak phone call… First we had a hunch; then it became a suspicion… that evolved into a likelihood… that has now become a strong probability. The capture of the December 29th phone call, which generated the raw “CR cuts“, was an FBI summary, modified for a specific interpretation....