The campaign by staff and students at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to dump visiting scholar and former Trump administration Cabinet member Richard Grenell turned ugly last month when an “assassination” threat was lobbed at him on social media.
Sources following the case said that President Trump’s former acting intelligence czar and former ambassador to Germany was targeted by two female students in now deleted tweets. One suggested killing Grenell, and another offered to help, said the sources.
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