‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right

Richard Grenell's shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests

For Donald Trump, he is my envoy", the man apparently anointed as the former US president's roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House.

To critics, he is seen as an online pest" and a national disgrace" - and most importantly, the dark embodiment of what foreign policy in a second Trump administration would look like.