At EU-US Forum Event, Richard Grenell Calls EU Bureaucrats “Enemies of Free Speech” After Their Attempt to Censor Trump X Spaces Interview
Grenell Also Slammed Kamala Harris’ Foreign Policy
VIENNA, Austria – The EU-US Forum, an American nonprofit organization that shines a light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU in order to stop them from spreading to the US, hosted a fireside chat discussion in Vienna, Austria with Former Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and Guy Benson, Fox News Contributor, nationally-syndicated radio host, Townhall political editor, author, and columnist.
Grenell and Benson discussed the future of EU-US relations as well as current events, including the EU’s attempt to censor President Trump’s X Spaces interview and the nomination of Kamala Harris. Grenell notably shared his insights about the possibility of a future Trump Administration and how President Trump would approach global matters in his second term.
Watch a recording of the event HERE.
Ambassador Richard Grenell calls EU bureaucrats “enemies of free speech:
BENSON: There was this little contretemps back home in the last 24 hours, Donald Trump did this lengthy interview or conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter or X, and it went a couple hours. I read that there were a million people who watched. And leading up to it, there’s a lot of hand-wringing in the American press. You saw someone on CNN expressing concern that Donald Trump would be able to say whatever he wanted to say, which is literally free speech. And they were concerned about that. We had a Washington Post reporter ask the press secretary at the White House, ‘Could the president or the administration do anything to stop this conversation?’ And then there was this missive, this letter, fired off by some EU Commissar, almost threatening, sort of saber rattling, about free speech and harmful content and that sort of thing surrounding this conversation. The Trump campaign put out quite a statement in response to that EU official calling the EU broadly enemies of free speech. Do you agree with that?
GRENELL: Yeah, of course, they are enemies of free speech. First of all, the two Americans talking about what’s going on, talking about the election, is all about freedom of speech, if someone is going to try to have a chilling effect to say they shouldn’t be able to speak freely because there’s hate speech or misinformation, first of all, this misinformation nonsense has got to stop. It’s not misinformation. Sometimes it’s someone’s opinion, and the best way to confront something that you don’t agree with is to speak out and give your facts and let people decide. There should never be a government agency or entity deciding to stop dissent because they think they know what’s right.”
Ambassador Richard Grenell on the advice he gives to world leaders when asked how to prepare for another Trump term:
BENSON: You speak on a regular basis with world leaders, heads of state, that sort of thing. I’d imagine you have conversations that go something like this, ‘If Trump wins again, and he’s president again, what should I do to prepare myself, my country, for what the world will look like under American leadership, with Donald Trump at the helm?’ Broad strokes, what is the advice that you would give, generically, whether it’s, you know, Macron, you know, go down a list.
GRENELL: I think it’s pretty simple, and I do get this question a lot, not just from world leaders, but from all sorts of people and the media, constantly asking, ‘What is the world going to be like if Trump wins?’ I push back and I just say, You know. You saw him for four years. I believe that when America puts itself first, that the world benefits, because we are not a nation that conquers and takes. We are a nation that establishes rule of law, respect, democracy, capitalism. Those rules are what everybody wants. They don’t always abide by them, but those are the international rules that are the best, that make the best system. I’m really proud of America when we put ourselves first because we establish rules that benefit everybody else. America First doesn’t meet America alone. It means we create a system that’s fair, and then there’s kind of the coalition of the willing on different issues.”
Matt Mowers, founding board member of the EU-US Forum and former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, spoke about Brussels bureaucrats ignoring the will of European voters who demanded change at the EU:
“The problem is this: Brussels is still ignoring the will of the voters, because they refuse to actually change any of the leadership that is emanating out of Brussels, despite the fact that the voters of Europe and the European Union sent a loud and clear message of a new direction. That they wanted a direction that involved stronger border controls, decentralized control so people could live their lives, a protection of free speech… they’ve ignored that because they want to hold on to the political power.”
Ambassador Richard Grenell called Kamala Harris “the most radical nominee America has ever seen:”
Kamala Harris is by far the most woke Democrat in California. She is radical by her own words. She’s questioned red meat, she doesn’t think we should have read meat because it’s bad for the environment. She is on video saying ‘You got to be woke. You actually got to be really woke. You got to be more woke than anybody else.’ She’s on video saying, ‘I want to ban fracking. I want to get rid of ICE, cops: Don’t help on the streets.’ She’s literally the most radical nominee America has ever seen. She’s a San Francisco radical.”