“The Hague [court] is totally corrupt and must be defunded.”
These are the words of Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s presidential envoy for special missions, who has made a series of incendiary statements on X criticising the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court.
Grenell has repeatedly called for the release of the most prominent defendant currently on trial, Hashim Thaci, Kosovo’s former president and a senior wartime Kosovo Liberation Army KLA official, calling his continued detention a “grave injustice”.
The outspoken Trump envoy is not the only high-profile American to have condemned the charges against Thaci recently. Two veteran US diplomatic officials who were prominent in the years of the Balkan wars, James Rubin and Christopher Hill, have also testified in The Hague in Thaci’s defence.
Rubin, former US assistant Secretary of State and spokesperson for Madeleine Albright, testified in court last month.
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