Not Richard Grennell, eh? I bet the intelligence community feels pretty nervous now. Donald Trump hasn’t made his choice of Director of National Intelligence public yet, and now Grennell’s available.
Grennell would have had an inside track on Secretary of State after his tenure as US Ambassador to Germany in the first Trump term. Instead, the New York Times reports that Trump will appoint Marco Rubio to run the State Department, where he will work with Elise Stefanik as Trump’s ambassador to the UN. That signals more muscular approach to foreign policy than perhaps expected, but still focused on American priorities than paying homage to the progressive global order:
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his secretary of state, three people familiar with his thinking said on Monday, as Mr. Trump moves rapidly…
