{"id":28289,"date":"2024-12-12T09:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/trump-says-ric-grenell-will-be-high-up-in-administration-after-report-says-ex-intel-chief-will-be-iran-envoy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:34:54","slug":"trump-says-ric-grenell-will-be-high-up-in-administration-after-report-says-ex-intel-chief-will-be-iran-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/trump-says-ric-grenell-will-be-high-up-in-administration-after-report-says-ex-intel-chief-will-be-iran-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Ric Grenell will be ‘high up’ in administration after report says ex-intel chief will be Iran envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump described Richard “Ric” Grenell,<\/a> his former acting director of National Intelligence, as a “fabulous person” and “A STAR” in response to a news report about him potentially serving as a special envoy for Iran.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported<\/a> that Trump is considering appointing Grenell to the position, citing “two people familiar with the transition plans.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s definitely in the running,” a person familiar with deliberations told the outlet under conditions of anonymity. Grenell, however, said the report is “made up.”<\/p>\n

Trump shared the Reuters report on Truth Social Wednesday night. While he did not confirm or deny the information in the article, he wrote, “Richard Grenell is a fabulous person, A STAR. He will be someplace, high up!”<\/p>\n

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Grenell shared a link to the Reuters article on his X account on Wednesday evening and denied the information presented.<\/p>\n

“Wrong. Again,” he wrote. “I hope there\u2019s an actual editor somewhere at @Reuters who is doing journalism. This is made up.”<\/p>\n

Grenell was previously rumored to be a candidate for various spots in Trump’s second term, including Secretary of State before Sen. Marco Rubio was appointed and special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict<\/a> before retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg was selected.<\/p>\n

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Whoever is chosen for the Iran position would be responsible for “developing, coordinating, and implementing the State Department’s Iran policy,” per the job description.<\/p>\n

The person would report directly to Rubio \u2013 assuming the Senate approves his nomination.<\/p>\n

Grenell has been a loyal ally to Trump<\/a> since his first presidential term and often appeared on the 2024 campaign trail to show his support for the now president-elect.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to Reuters for comment.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump described Richard “Ric” Grenell, his former acting director of National Intelligence, as a “fabulous person” and “A STAR” in response to a news report about him potentially serving as a special envoy for Iran. Reuters reported that Trump is considering appointing Grenell to the position, citing “two people familiar with the transition … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}