National Security Adviser Thanks Richard Grenell For ‘Distinguished Service’ After He Steps Down

Then-U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 8, 2019. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

National security adviser Robert O'Brien on Tuesday thanked Richard Grenell for his “distinguished service” in the Trump administration after Grenell stepped down as acting director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and as the U.S. ambassador to Germany.

“I would like to thank Richard Grenell for his distinguished service in the Trump Administration,” O’Brien said in a statement published on the National Security Council’s Twitter account. “For the past two years, he served the American people as Ambassador to Germany and recently as Acting Director of National Intelligence.”