Earlier today, former President Donald Trump released an utterly bonkers statement, making us wonder if the former guy thinks he is still the president. The twice-impeached one-term president claimed that he has an “Envoy Ambassador” who traveled to the Kosovo-Serbia border to “highlight” an “important agreement” that his “administration brokered.”
The so-called Ambassador is Richard Grenell, the former president’s ambassador to Germany, who no longer has a job with the government. One month before losing the election to Joe Biden, Trump named Grenell as a special envoy for peace negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo. So, it appears that Trump and Grenell are violating the Logan Act.
Biden’s White House responded to the crazy-time statement saying, “Outside of his very active imagination, Donald Trump is no longer President and doesn’t have any ‘envoy ambassadors’ representing the United States.”
NEW: “Outside of his very active imagination, Donald Trump is no longer President and doesn’t have any ‘envoy ambassadors’ representing the United States,” a White House official tells me in response to this: https://t.co/Rz8aBl4p7X
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 11, 2021
Twitter users piled in:
This is incredibly sad and pathetic
— Arizona Patriot🍦🇺🇸 (@AZPatriot22) November 11, 2021
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His delusion of this is a national security threat. It must be stopped!
— Knitting Kris 🧶 (@knittingkris) November 11, 2021
Grenell should let the former guy know this.
Grenell said the same thing. https://t.co/AFePO9OAzp
— vinne (@vinne88755581) November 11, 2021
Precisely the way to treat trump’s delusions of grandeur. https://t.co/IBBYGrOfH0
— Barbara Rogan (@RoganBarbara) November 11, 2021
Not new: The Logan Act.
— Mark Peters (@mark__thyme) November 11, 2021
Liz’s tweets of the ex’s “statements” are the ex’s way of getting around his twitter ban. Liz needs to be banned.
— leann rich (@leannrich17) November 11, 2021
It gets weirder.
Trump dispatched his “special envoy” Rick Grenell to Serbia and Kosovo, where he checked in with Newsmax today to report his findings after visiting the border. (No, this isn’t a tweet from 2018). pic.twitter.com/r43Ys7d8uF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 11, 2021
The Logan Act is a federal law that criminalizes negotiations by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments. Not that laws mean anything to Donald Trump. He didn’t have an administration. Trump had a crime family. The former president is like the clingy guy in the 5th grade that just won’t leave you alone.
Featured image via Gage Skidmore/Flickr, under Creative Commons license 2.0
