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Richard Grenell warns people to be afraid of the government, then fires back at Adam Kinzinger for telling him to 'Shut up'
Richard Grenell, who has previously served as U.S. ambassador to Germany, acting director of National Intelligence, and special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations, has urged people to be afraid of the government.
"Fear your government! They are coming for you. Biden has turned it into a system that listens to you, watches your transactions, cancels you for disagreeing with them and censoring your opinions. It's getting worse. And no one in DC is worried because they are the perpetrators," Grenell wrote on X.
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a Republican, offered a two-word response to Grenell's assertions: "Shut up."
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Grenell responded, "lol. Debate, Adam. Don't shut down dissent views. Your J6 committee didn't have a single dissenting voice on the entire committee - everyone agreed….but that isn't the real world."
As a member of Congress, Kinzinger voted in favor of impeaching then-President Donald Trump on the heels of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Kinzinger was one of the two Republicans to serve on the House Select Committee that was supposed to investigate the Jan. 6 incident. He became a CNN senior political commentator after leaving office.
Grenell has said that "Democrats are afraid of dissenting views" and "are crushing and cancelling people who don't comply" with the media assisting. "It's unAmerican and intolerant," he wrote.
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"If you value counter culture or dissenting views, you must throw out Democrats from power," Grenell has asserted.
When someone on social media claimed that the government only goes after people who violate the law, Grenell responded by calling the commenter "naive."
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Richard Grenell calls Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court 'a terrible precedent,' slams Rep. Ted Lieu for 'defending this horrific precedent of intolerance'
Richard Grenell, who briefly served as acting director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump, called President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate the first black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, "a terrible precedent," noting that many people were excluded from the pool of potential candidates.
Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the seat of Justice Stephen Breyer, who is slated to retire later this year. In a 53-47 vote on Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson to serve on the nation's high court. GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who in June, 2021, voted against confirming Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was one of only three Republicans to vote in favor of confirming Jackson to the Supreme Court.
"There will be one seat on the Supreme Court with an asterisk - because not every American was considered to fill it. Hispanics, Asians, Whites, gays and men were not even considered. This is a terrible precedent," tweeted Grenell, who also previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California responded by tweeting, "Apparently @RichardGrenell believes that prior to President Biden, every Asian American, every gay person and every Black female was considered for Supreme Court openings and not a single one of them throughout US history was ever qualified. That’s [bullsh*t] and it’s demeaning."
Grenell, who is openly gay, fired back, "Ted LIEu proudly supports rejecting Hispanics from Supreme Court consideration. His constituents are outraged by his open intolerance." In another tweet Grenell said, "Ted LIEu attacks @BarackObama and Bill Clinton as racists and homophobes."
Apparently @RichardGrenell believes that prior to President Biden, every Asian American, every gay person and every Black female was considered for Supreme Court openings and not a single one of them throughout US history was ever qualified. That\u2019s bullshit and it\u2019s demeaning.https://twitter.com/richardgrenell/status/1512155340204228613\u00a0\u2026— Ted Lieu (@Ted Lieu) 1649392046
President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 — she is the first Hispanic to serve on the high court.
"What about the fact that minorities were historically excluded from Supreme Court openings?" Lieu replied to several people who had responded to his tweet. "Do you actually believe not a single Asian American, gay or Black female prior to Biden was qualified? What about that? Why won’t you answer the real question?"
Grenell accused Lieu of backing "racism and sexism."
"No President has ever vocally excluded Asians, Hispanics and men for the Court. Stop defending this horrific precedent of intolerance. Shame on you for supporting racism and sexism," Grenell tweeted.
No President has ever vocally excluded Asians, Hispanics and men for the Court. \n\nStop defending this horrific precedent of intolerance. Shame on you for supporting racism and sexism.https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1512287736790724612\u00a0\u2026— Richard Grenell (@Richard Grenell) 1649392693
Other Americans have also been critical of Biden's decision to limit the pool of potential candidates based on skin color and gender.
"Biden’s mistake: He should not be choosing a Supreme Court justice based on the color of their skin or sex, but rather on their qualifications & commitment to uphold our Constitution & the freedoms guaranteed to all Americans in that document which is the foundation of our nation," former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard tweeted earlier this year.
It's claimed some US women soccer players turned backs on 98-year-old WWII vet playing national anthem. But team says they were facing US flag.
Some dust got kicked up when video appeared to show some members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team with their backs turned on 98-year-old World War II veteran Pete DuPre while he played the national anthem on harmonica before the team's Olympic send-off game against Mexico on Monday.
But images apparently can be deceiving.
What are the details?
Responding to a tweet from the Post Millennial accusing some players of turning their backs while DuPre played the anthem, U.S. Soccer Comms shot back with a tweet of its own:
@TPostMillennial Not true. No one turned their back on WWII Veteran Pete DuPré during tonight's anthem. Some USWNT… https://t.co/vF4W0KZkZZ
— U.S. Soccer Comms (@ussoccer_comms) 1625538783.0
"Not true," U.S. Soccer Comms wrote. "No one turned their back on WWII Veteran Pete DuPré during tonight's anthem. Some USWNT players were simply looking at the flag on a pole in one end of the stadium. The players all love Pete, thanked him individually after the game, and signed a ball for him."
U.S. team member Carli Lloyd also tweeted that "we turned because we faced the flag."
Another clip shows most of the players turning toward DuPre and applauding him after he played the anthem:
Thank you, Pete! 🇺🇸❤️ https://t.co/BL7kgHbLfg
— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) 1625519288.0
It also appeared that most of the players who were facing away from DuPre during the anthem had their hands over their hearts, which doesn't support an anthem protest claim:
Richard Grenell chimes in
Richard Grenell — former acting director of National Intelligence under former President Donald Trump — got some attention with his Monday tweet saying "several" U.S. players "turned away from the US flag" while DuPre played the anthem.
Pollster Frank Luntz countered to Grenell that the "U.S. women not facing forward had turned to face the American flag down by the scoreboard. (A few of them placed their hand over their heart while facing toward the flag instead of the anthem performer.)" Luntz also included an image showing the flag by the scoreboard.
In response to U.S. Soccer Comms, Grenell added another tweet saying "not one of those who snubbed the flag & anthem tuned toward Pete. Pete was to their left. ... They aren't turned to him. (Every Mexican player turned for their anthem)."
There appears to be overall confusion regarding the flag's location and the intent of various U.S. players. While video of DuPre playing the anthem doesn't show it, there appears to be a flag at the end of the stadium based on the photo Luntz posted, and some U.S. players were turned in that direction; in addition many people in the crowd also were turned in that same direction during the anthem. But that doesn't explain why a handful of U.S. players faced forward rather than turning toward the flag.
In the same vein, the Post Millennial's original headline, according to the Internet Archive, reads "DISGRACEFUL: US women's soccer team members turn their backs to 98-year-old WWII vet playing the national anthem" preceded by an "American News" category. But the outlet's updated headline reads "DISGRACEFUL: US women's soccer team members turned away from flag as 98-year-old WWII vet played the national anthem" and is preceded by a "News Analysis" category.
Anything else?
Author and comedian Tim Young noted to Grenell that numerous U.S. women soccer players took a knee in protest during the anthem last year:
Hey @RichardGrenell, here's the same characters from today taking knees last year. https://t.co/Bkwd82gcUf
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) 1625541459.0
In addition, star player Megan Rapinoe made a name for herself in 2016 after kneeling for the national anthem a la Colin Kaepernick and since then has virtue-signaled around the globe for progressive causes such as lack of diversity and the evils of Trump among many others.
Richard Grenell strongly hints at possible run for governor of California
Richard Grenell, a strong ally of former President Donald Trump, teased a possible run for governor of California.
Grenell delivered a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, where the former U.S. ambassador to Germany hinted at making a gubernatorial run in the deep blue state of California.
"If you want the best case possible for a recall campaign, take a look at my home state of California," Grenell told the crowd at CPAC in Orlando, Florida. "California used to be Reagan country, the shining example of business innovation and middle-class success. But now when you think of California, you think of out-of-control wildfires, of rolling blackouts, of schools still closed, of shuttered business, of bans on fracking, and on wealthy people jumping the vaccine line."
Grenell then took aim at Gavin Newsom, the current Democratic governor of California who is facing a petition recall.
"In my three decades in American politics I have never seen a better case for a recall than there is right now in California," he added. "And of course, if a public official is still failing to deliver on their promises, and if you can't limit their term or recall them in time, there's always one other option: You can run against them yourself."
Mercedes Schlapp, another former member of the Trump administration who was the White House Director of Strategic Communications, was in favor of Grenell running and told the crowd, "How wonderful was Ric Grenell? I don't know, I think he'd make a great governor of California."
Previously, Grenell dismissed the notion that he would run for governor of the Golden State. The former Acting Director of National Intelligence shot down a Politico report earlier this month that he was "laying groundwork for CA governor run should @GavinNewsom recall qualify."
Grenell reacted to the report by tweeting, "Politico has pretended gossip is journalism."
The deadline to submit signatures on a petition to recall Newsom is March 17, but the campaign already surpassed the necessary threshold of 1,497,709. As of Thursday, the petition had 1,825,000 signatures, according to The Recall Newsom campaign.
"However, it's important to note that all those signatures need to be verified as authentic registered voters by the Secretary of State's office before a recall elections is triggered," KABC-TV reported.
Even if Newsom is recalled, it would be a tall order for Grenell, who is embraced by much of Trump's base, to win the deep blue California. In the 2020 presidential election, Trump lost California by more than 29 percentage points to Joe Biden. As of November, registered Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans by almost two to one.
Donald Trump will speak at CPAC on Sunday.
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