The Daily Mail reports:

Richard Grenell worked years to climb through MAGA’s cut-throat ranks, remarkably scrapping his way into leading the nation’s premiere intelligence apparatus in 2020. Six years later, at the peak of Donald Trump’s power, he finds himself running a theater – and now even that job is being put on ice. Grenell’s career trajectory took another sharp turn this month when Trump announced plans to shutter the Kennedy Center for a massive two-year construction project.

Branded ‘a ruthlessly ambitious asshole,’ by two former colleagues, Grenell’s sharp elbows and short temper have finally caught up with him, as he’s been pushed out of the administration’s most high-level and sensitive foreign policy decisions, according to four diplomatic sources who have worked closely with him. Grenell was caught floating himself to campaign aides at Mar-a-Lago to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee.

Then came a defining incident at the Republican National Convention, where a heated argument with Wiles over his speaking time on the dais boiled over. ‘He screamed at Susie, and he told her, “You’re the reason why we’re going to lose this f***ing election!” The confrontation was so intense that Wiles was reportedly left on the verge of tears. He probably didn’t know it at the time, but that single outburst sealed Grenell’s fate, freezing him out of any serious cabinet-level roles in Trump 2.0.

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