EXCLUSIVE: Former acting director of National Intelligence Ambassador Richard Grenell has joined the Republican National Committee as a senior adviser focusing on political outreach, specifically for LGBT voters, Fox News has learned.
An RNC official told Fox News that Grenell recently became a member of the GOP, after serving as the first openly gay American official in history.
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“As America’s first cabinet member, I can say with confidence that President Trump has done more for gay and lesbian Americans than any other president, and it is not even close,” Grenell said in a statement to Fox News.
Grenell continued with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying that during his “four decades in Washington he consistently fought against equality before marriage and even threatened to cut funding for schools that taught acceptance of homosexuality.”
“From President Trump’s global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality to becoming the first president to support gay marriage on his first day in office, he has been a champion for our community and I am excited to be a part of it.” the fight to re-elect him for four more years, “Grenell said.
Grenell served as U.S. ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020, as the presidential envoy for Kosovo-Serbia negotiations, and as acting director of National Intelligence in 2020, where he classified a slew of documents related to the Russia investigation.
Prior to joining the Trump administration, Grenell was a United Nations spokesman, and in 2012, he briefly served as spokesman for national security and foreign affairs for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. He was the first openly gay spokesman for a Republican presidential candidate.
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Grenell was featured this week in a new ad for the Log Cabin Republicans, who claimed that Trump “made history for #LGBT Americans.”
Meanwhile, Grenell’s addition to the RNC comes after the party that marked Pride month in June by marking Trump’s speech at the United Nations calling on dozens of countries to decriminalize homosexuality, and “historic” LGBT designations, such as Grenell’s.
Earlier this week, Grenell took part in a Team Trump bus trip in Nevada. Grenell also tweeted this week, in response to Goodyear’s equity policy, “Zou @good year allow employees to wear this hat? “
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