All posts tagged "Richard Grenell"

A judge threw out a Kennedy Center lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled a show in protest of Trump's attempt to rename it after himself, according to reports.

The Trump-led Kennedy Center sued Redd for breaching his contract, but D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier dismissed the lawsuit on Friday, according to reporting by the Washington Post. Richard Grenell, a Trump ally leading the center's board, threatened him with a $1 million demand last year.

Jones Bosier ruled that Kennedy Center officials failed to prove they had a legally binding agreement with Redd to perform at the venue's Christmas Eve concert last year, according to the Post....

Despite traditionally being regarded as one of America's most storied cultural icons, the Kennedy Center has had significant difficulty filling seats ever since President Donald Trump took over the vaunted institution earlier this year.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Trump advisor Richard Grenell, his first-term acting Director of National Intelligence who is now president and executive director of the Kennedy Center, erupted after a report by The Athletic (which is owned by The New York Times) showed how the facility's ticket sales have been lagging for months. The report noted that the Kennedy Center allowed FIFA (which organizes the quadrennial World Cup) to rent its concert hall for a $0 fee.

In a lengthy post to his official X account, Grenell tore into both the outlet's reporters and former Kennedy Center dance director Jane Raleigh, who confided to the outlet that subscription return rates had seen a 50 percent drop. He also refuted the report by saying FIFA was "paying the Kennedy Center more than $7 million to do their world-wide event FIFA draw" through various "sponsorship opportunities" and a $2.4 million donation....

A host from MSNBC on Saturday feuded with Donald Trump’s former intelligence officer Richard Grenell, who is reportedly now acting as a “shadow secretary of State” for the former president.

It started with a video of MSNBC's Alex Wagner reporting on Kash Patel, the former Chief of Staff to Trump's Secretary of defense. According to the report, he promised to go after people in the media, and is being considered for Attorney General in a potential second term for Trump.

Wagner called Patel's consideration as head of the DOJ "the most alarming detail" in a recent report about a second Trump presidency....