U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for foreign policy, Richard Grenell, has hinted that the Biden administration tried to tip the scales against a conservative candidate in the recent Romanian elections.
According to The New York Sun, the accusation was made amidst a review of the Joe Biden White House’s foreign diplomatic actions. Data allegedly emerged that the Biden administration tried to play against the winning independent presidential candidate Călin Georgescu in the presidential election.
Grenell himself testified to this on X earlier this month, writing “The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke. The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates. Conservatives around the world were targeted. Romania is the latest example”—tagging Romanian socialist PM Marcel Ciolacu.
As we reported, the right-wing presidential candidate, Călin Georgescu, won the first round on November 24, but the Romanian Constitutional Court annulled the results. The highest court took this unprecedented step amid widespread suspicions of Russian interference, which have never been proven.
What is also interesting is that it turns out Trump’s envoy was already in Romania the day before Romanian president Klaus Iohannis resigned, after opposition parties on both sides declared him “illegitimate.” Grenell’s Bucharest visit, just one day before the resignation, raises suspicions that Iohannis may not have decided on his own to resign.
According to sources of the Romanian news portal stiripesurse.ro, Grenell was supposed to arrive in Bucharest only at the beginning of this week but was already in the Romanian capital on Sunday, February 9.
