Another Eastern European Nation Gets Tangled in US Politics

An Op-Ed by a former Moldovan ambassador on Trump’s acting intelligence director and his dubious ties to an Eastern European politician.

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6 min readMar 1, 2020

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Richard Grenell, until recently US ambassador to Germany, is now acting national director of intelligence. He has worked for a Moldovan politician whom the US has accused of corruption, and the author of this op-ed, a former Moldovan ambassador to the UN, says that “knowingly or not,” Grenell tolerated the politician’s deceit.

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