Former acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell accused a Politico reporter of acting as a “total Democrat activist” Monday, after she appeared to defend President Joe Biden’s decision to waive sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
A State Department report last month suggested that Nord Stream 2, the company behind the pipeline to Germany—which is said to be ly tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin—engaged in sanctionable activity. On Monday, Biden’s secretary of state, Anthony Blinken waived those sanctions, claiming the decision to be in the best interest of the United States.
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“Germany loves @SecBlinken. He has given them their Russian gas pipeline,” Grenell, who served as U.S. ambassador to Germany under the Trump administration, wrote on Twitter.
Politico foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi suggested that Grenell played a direct role in the development of the pipeline during his ambassadorship in a responding thread.
“Didn’t most of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline’s construction happen when you were ambassador to Germany?” she wrote on Twitter.
Critics said Toosi was uninformed of the widespread reports that Grenell, who vocally opposed the project, sent threatening letters to German companies working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, warning them at the time of possible sanctions if they did not pull out, according to Germany’s mass-circulation “Bild am Sonntag.”
“It’s scary that you cover foreign policy because you are a total Democrat activist,” Grenell fired back. “Any unbiased observer knows it was planned, approved and construction began under Obama/Biden. The Trump team dramatically slowed it down and ensured it wasn’t finished.”
“Are you really this uninformed or being deliberately obtuse?” questioned another.
Sixty-eight congressional Republicans slammed the move in a letter to the Biden administration ahead of the president’s visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month.
Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox News.
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