‘It’s Remarkable’: Glenn Greenwald Celebrates His Warm Welcome on Fox News as Proof of the ‘Trump Realignment’

Veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has long been associated with the far-left of American politics, celebrated his recent appearance on Fox News as a “remarkable” example of how President Donald Trump has realigned U.S. politics.

Greenwald, who became famous for publishing leaked material from Edward Snowden, shared his appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend and wrote, “It’s remarkable — and a sign of the Trump realignment especially on foreign policy — what kinds of foreign policy discussions one now has on Fox News.”

The segment began with co-anchor Charlie Hurt remarking that it was “great to see” Greenwald in the studio and asserting that “that was a truly remarkable speech we saw from JD Vance this week.”

“It was remarkable because this has been a long-standing critique of U.S. European foreign policy, namely that everything we do is just by the name of protecting and advancing democracy. That’s how we hear, for example, our involvement in the war in Ukraine justified, ‘Oh, we’re defending democracy. That’s what we do,’” replied Greenwald, who has taken a pro-MAGA turn in recent years. He added:

And there’s been a lie at the heart of that for decades, which is we partner with some of the most dictatorial regimes on the planet, Saudi Arabia and Egypt and others, where we prop up those dictatorships.

But also the Europeans have often interfered in elections when they dislike the outcome, as has the United States. And at the same time, the United States and especially Europe are leading the way in censoring the Internet.

So this idea that we can posture as defenders of democracy, but we have to be honest with ourselves that that’s not really what our institutions are intended to do is amazing to hear from a senior American official.

While in years past, a conservative host might push back on the idea that the U.S. is not a force for good overseas, Rachel Campos-Duffy, instead replied:

Well, one of the ways that our government does do the things that you’re talking about is through USAID on these cutouts. You know, the CIA doesn’t want to tell us or our government does want to tell us what they’re doing. And so they prop up these NGOs and now and they do the dirty work of regime change and corruption and interfering in internal politics in countries.

So I just want to get your thoughts on what you see happening. I mean, I’ve sort of learned about this through you, through my fence to others, and now it’s all getting, you know, shown to light. So what are your thoughts over the last three weeks?

“Well, this is something that has been a bipartisan policy for decades, this idea that the United States should go around the world manipulating internal politics of other countries,” Greenwald replied, adding:

And we, of course, don’t use the CIA to do it because everyone knows and we want to deceive the American public most of all saying, we’re humanitarian, we just are giving aid to people in need, or we’re promoting democracy through the National Endowment of Democracy.

And the reality is what these agencies do is create anti-American hostility. It’s part of the reason why we’re driving the world into the arms of China, because although we in America don’t know that this is what our government is doing, everyone else knows US aid has been kicked out of a lot of countries.

Four years before we were told, the Russians invaded our sacred democracy and manipulated our democracy in 2016. Hillary Clinton was using the National Endowment of Democracy to fund anti-government protest groups in Russia to destabilize that country.

We used the National Endowment for Democracy to facilitate a coup in 2014 in Ukraine, to remove the government, the president that we didn’t like, the elected one to replace him with someone that we did. And so it’s so refreshing to see some transparency and candor brought to what these agencies will do and the harm they caused to the United States.

Again, Campos-Duffy did not push back on any of Greenwald’s talking points and instead asked him to explain how the “uniparty” took control of the U.S.

“I think what happens is when you create a institutional base of power and this is what we created after World War Two and with Harry Truman to counteract the Soviet Union. And it became this very large, secretive part of our government that Dwight Eisenhower warned about in 1961 on his way out the door,” he replied, adding:

And since then, it’s only grown and grown and grown with Vietnam in the Reagan years and then after 9/11. And now it’s so gigantic that no one can control it. It’s completely it’s its own government. And I think it’s because there’s an inertia that just says once we have power, we don’t want to give it up.

Hurt concluded the interview by saying, “Glenn, thank you for your fierce independence and your fearless reporting.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News.