Richard Grenell, who served as former President Donald Trump's ambassador to Germany and then briefly as his acting Director of National Intelligence, is an infamous right-wing Twitter troll who caused international outrage by trying to interfere on behalf of far-right parties in Europe.
However, Grenell does have one other notable distinction: he was the only openly gay man to have served in a high-ranking position in Trump's administration.
As a result, it rubbed Grenell the wrong way on Monday when Lauren Witzke, an unsuccessful GOP nominee for Senate in the 2020 election, attacked a transgender woman who attended the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference as "mentally ill" and "demonic" and comparing acceptance of transgender rights to castrating children, leading to a public argument on Twitter.
Witzke, who ran for the same Delaware Senate seat that was once held by President Joe Biden, has repeatedly promoted QAnon conspiracy theories, described herself as a "flat earther," has claimed that God "anointed" Trump, and claims she was once a drug-runner for "Mexican cartels."
