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Germany asks Trump envoy to clarify 'empowering' conservatives comment
TheLocal.de ^ | 4 June 2018 14:44 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 06/04/2018 7:07:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Germany has asked the new US ambassador in Berlin, outspoken Trump loyalist Richard Grenell, to clarify his reported comments on website Breitbart that he wants to “empower” European conservatives.

A German foreign ministry spokesman said Berlin had “asked the US side for clarification” and that its state secretary Andreas Michaelis would revisit the issue at a pre-arranged meeting with Grenell later this week.

Grenell, who took his Berlin post less than a month ago, was quoted by Breitbart London as speaking about his excitement at a “European groundswell of conservative policies” that had come because of “the failed policies of the left”. […]

Social Democratic lawmaker Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel tweeted that “European citizens don’t need a Trump vassal to tell them who to vote for. A US ambassador who meddles in the democratic process to such a degree is simply misplaced”. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breitbart; conservatives; eussr; grenell

1 posted on 06/04/2018 7:07:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“You are in no position to demand anything.”


2 posted on 06/04/2018 7:08:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

“F___ You! That’s my clarification!”


3 posted on 06/04/2018 7:09:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

The US representative should remain quiet when thuggish Germany through its control of the EU ignores voting rights of Europeans?


4 posted on 06/04/2018 7:16:40 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: Olog-hai

” We intend to airdrop weapons, chocolate and nylon stockings..”


5 posted on 06/04/2018 7:18:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Olog-hai

German Foreign Ministry: “Hey, what do you think you are doing, telling our people the emperor has no clothes?!! This is not allowed!!”

Trump: “Hey, buddy, you better put some pants on, too.”


6 posted on 06/04/2018 7:48:34 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Olog-hai

He should tell them “The opposite of everything the Nazi’s ever did”!


7 posted on 06/04/2018 7:53:49 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: Olog-hai
Social Democratic lawmaker Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel tweeted that “European citizens don’t need a Trump vassal to tell them who to vote for. A US ambassador who meddles in the democratic process to such a degree is simply misplaced”. …

Since the late 1940s, our State Department has been pushing anti-Conservative internationalist views on nations around the world. Finally, the Trump Administration is starting to balance things out.

God Bless! An American Foreign Policy

William Flax

8 posted on 06/04/2018 8:02:04 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Olog-hai

Hilarious comment coming from the Social(its) Democrat spokesman considering how eagerly many Germans gobbled Obama’s knob for years. Americans don’t need Yurps telling them who to vote for.


9 posted on 06/04/2018 8:10:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: Olog-hai

European Lefties have lectured us CONSTANTLY on our politics. Now, they can just burst into flames and die howling.


10 posted on 06/04/2018 8:10:23 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They may be crumbs, but the Dems want them back. -robroy's woman [who is using his wife's account])
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To: Olog-hai

Brain dead EU flunkies.


11 posted on 06/04/2018 8:11:04 AM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: Olog-hai

Verstehen, son of a bitch?


12 posted on 06/04/2018 8:27:36 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Olog-hai

Clarification: You commies are going down.


13 posted on 06/04/2018 8:29:18 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh but you’re our closest allies. Lol. I’m so sick of the business reporters saying that. If they were they wouldn’t have left these unfair trade practices in place long after they recovered. Screw them. It’s a new day for as long as we have this potus.


14 posted on 06/04/2018 8:30:40 AM PDT by arkfreepdom
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I’m so sick of the business reporters saying that. If they were they wouldn’t have left these unfair trade practices in place long after they recovered. Screw them. It’s a new day for as long as we have this potus.

Amen to that... I know who's a friend to our county by the way THEY TREAT US. Not by how some reporter's butt is kissed. If they're stealing from us on trade and NOT paying their share of defense they're NOT our dear friend.

15 posted on 06/14/2018 9:16:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama called me clinger. Hillary called me deplorable. Trump calls me an American. -unknown)
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