No. of Recommendations: 6
He openly admires the very worst politicians around the globe (as long as they don't come from 'shithole countries'). He's made it clear he wants to be an autocrat.
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.
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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.Trump calls Grenell his 'envoy', though neither is in office.
Many MAGAs openly admit they want Trump to be a dictator. But how about the smart conservatives on this board? How do you justify voting for this demagogue? Despite the fear mongering about socialism and communism, we are far closer to right wing authoritarianism with Trump's inexplicable popularity.
Trump is not being coy in the least about his fascist leanings...
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.
“I think Trump and Grenell would upend American leadership of the free world, from Truman on the left to Reagan on the right, and replace it with something much darker,” said Daniel Fried, who spent four decades in top State Department posts, including as an assistant secretary of state and a director of the National Security Council. “It’s transactional. Democratic values are irrelevant, and it’s isolationist.”washingtonpost.com - Richard grenell trump envoy serbia guatemala 