Inside The Trump-Backed Campaign To Push Angela Merkel Out Of Power

[riversedge]

Wish she could really give trump a smack down!

Inside The Trump-Backed Campaign To Push Angela Merkel Out Of Power


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/angela-merkel-donald-trump-immigration_us_5b2bbc25e4b00295f15a1d5d

The president, his allies and U.S. government officials are offering public and private support to anti-immigrant politicians hoping to topple Merkel by July 1.


By Akbar Shahid Ahmed


WASHINGTON ― It’s not new to hear U.S. officials rooting for regime change. It’s just been a while since they’ve talked about it with regard to Berlin.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Twitter against German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week provided the clearest evidence yet of a sprawling American campaign to undermine her. While Trump’s disdain for Merkel has been evident since the early days of his presidential run, he and his ideological allies have ramped up their efforts dramatically just as the German leader faces what experts call one of her most serious challenges yet: developing a Europe-wide policy on asylum seekers by July 1 to appease a crucial right-wing partner in her coalition government.

Merkel now has to contend with not only local opponents but also a network of influential anti-immigrant Americans and other international activists inspired by Trump and similar illiberal leaders, like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

They’re determined to punish the chancellor for welcoming more than a million desperate refugees seeking shelter in Europe since 2015 ― and ultimately want to prove that compassion toward immigrants is now political suicide in the West.

“The leaders of the two biggest nations in Europe are increasingly besieged,” said Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, referring to Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. “And both of the big outside powers, the U.S. and Russia, are on the side of those who besiege them.”

The key players are hard to identify, but their number includes the president himself, national security adviser John Bolton, former White House aide and ongoing Trump defender Steve Bannon and powerful Trump whisperer Stephen Miller, who attacked Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign by calling her “America’s Merkel.”

Proof of their work trickles out in bits and pieces. A month .............................

[samnsara]

1. seeing how evil this man is when hes under a microscope of We The People..

..can you imagine the damage he can cause when hes a private citizen with NO oversight?

[RKP5637]

2. The guy is dangerous as hell. n/t

[Ohiogal]

3. He is insanely jealous of Merkel

because she is respected worldwide, she is smarter than he is, and she's a woman who orders men around and Dumpy can't stand that. Plus she doesn't fawn all over him.

[CrispyQ]

4. What do you bet he refers to her as "Hillary 2." -nt

[Historic NY]

5. She should send the US Ambassador home.

He screwing with the automobile industry from German based companies that also build here in the US.

[MBS]

6. YES! n/t

[MBS]

7. Outrageous and so wrongheaded.

The Trumpistas seem to be doing their damnedest to destroy the Western alliance and our country's future as a world power.
In my book, this is treason.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread riversedge

[Judi Lynn]

11. Vicious, evil, stupid. n/t

[AZ8theist]

12. and Dotard delivers Putins instructions..

TO THE LETTER.