{"id":1033938,"date":"2024-05-26T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1033938"},"modified":"2024-05-26T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:50:49","slug":"top-trump-ally-and-election-denier-caught-admitting-to-attempts-to-overturn-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/top-trump-ally-and-election-denier-caught-admitting-to-attempts-to-overturn-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Trump Ally and Election Denier Caught Admitting to Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Ric Grenell, a top Trump surrogate and election denier, admitting his lies about the 2020 results were to help Trump overturn the election, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven Ric Grenell \u2013 an extreme election denier leading the charge on Donald Trump\u2019s anti-democracy conspiracy theories \u2013 knew that Trump\u2019s false claims about the 2020 election were nothing more than a brazen attempt to try and overturn the results. Now, after pushing lies and cozying up to dictators, Grenell is openly bragging about his prospects to be a top administration official if Trump gets back into office \u2013 once again making it clear that our democracy is on the line in this election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ric Grenell knowingly pushed fraudulent claims and baseless lies to help Donald Trump as he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/25\/us\/politics\/grenell-trump-cabinet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRichard Grenell\u2019s quest to be secretary of state in a second Trump administration began late on Election Day in 2020, when the defeated president dispatched loyalists to run shambolic \u201cstop the steal\u201d operations in battleground states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>President Donald J. Trump tapped Mr. Grenell \u2014 his combative former ambassador to Germany, acting national intelligence chief and special envoy to the Balkans \u2014<\/strong> to fly by private plane to Nevada, where Mr. Grenell ensconced himself, his dog Lola, lawyers and a crew of activists in a suite at the Venetian Resort, which served as the group\u2019s war room in Las Vegas. <strong>In a days-long spectacle, the Trump team filed a lawsuit and aired false accusations of fraud, including one wrongly implicating hundreds of members of the military.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was all a sham. Mr. Grenell told the team in the war room, two G.O.P. operatives recalled, that the Nevada vote was not, in fact, stolen. <\/strong>The operatives, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal<strong> <\/strong>from<strong> Mr. Grenell<\/strong>, said he<strong> told the team that the goal was simply to \u2018throw spaghetti at the wall\u2019 \u2014 the operatives described Mr. Grenell making a theatrical tossing gesture as he spoke \u2014 to distract the media from calling Nevada while the election battle in neighboring Arizona played out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEither way, <strong>several people close to the former president say that Mr. Grenell has a good chance of landing a top foreign policy job in a second Trump administration<\/strong> \u2014 if not as secretary of state, which requires Senate confirmation, then perhaps as national security adviser, which does not. They note that Mr. Grenell has spent the past three and a half years leveraging his Balkan contacts in business ventures, including with an important partner \u2014 Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump\u2019s son-in-law \u2014 and that he brings a bombastic bravado to American diplomacy held in high regard by the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cStill, Mr. Trump talks to Mr. Grenell regularly, and a year and a half ago was heaping praise on his pugilistic loyalty. \u2018Ric Grenell: a fighter,\u2019 Mr. Trump said in Arizona in October 2022. \u2018We have a great, great man. A great fighter. He\u2019s got a lot of future.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grenell has spent years cozying up to right-wing authoritarian leaders and undermining U.S. foreign policy \u2014 just like his former boss Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/05\/richard-grenell-trump-far-right-foreign-policy\">The Guardian<\/a>: <strong>\u201cRichard Grenell\u2019s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrenell \u2013 who served as a rambunctious ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence during Trump\u2019s first term \u2013 <strong>has carved a niche as the articulator-in-chief of a Maga approach to global affairs that appears to echo his political master\u2019s voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn recent months, he has pitched up in <strong>Guatemala, where he tried to stymie US state department pleas for a peaceful transition of power by backing rightwing efforts to block the inauguration of the liberal president-elect, Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo, on supposed electoral fraud grounds about a poll previously declared \u201cfree and fair\u201d by international observers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018There are many aspects to what Grenell is doing,\u2019 said Joe Cirincione, a veteran Washington foreign policy and arms control specialist. \u2018One is grift, looking for business deals, particularly in Serbia, where Trump has longstanding business interests and Trump seems to be helping him pursue this.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Another is more sinister. <strong>It looks as though Grenell is trying to build up a developing authoritarian network of rightwing leaders to form this authoritarian axis that Trump might govern by \u2013 ranging from Putin to [Viktor] Orb\u00e1n [prime minister of Hungary] to Erdo\u011fan.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cGrenell\u2019s own pronouncements give proponents of America\u2019s existing alliances little cause for comfort.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Ric Grenell, a top Trump surrogate and election denier, admitting his lies about the 2020 results were to help Trump overturn the election, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cEven Ric Grenell \u2013 an extreme election denier leading the charge on Donald Trump\u2019s anti-democracy conspiracy theories \u2013 knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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