This is news? Most of today’s Leaders are whacked in the mack. The fact that she is the historic first female chancellor makes her all the more likely to myopia and self centeredness. There are probably very few confidants she fully trusts, and the fact of her distrust is well known. Sort of like one imagines Putin to be.
It was disclosed a few years ago that our CIA/NSA were spying on and actively interception her communications.
Don’t think that Obamoa doesn’t use that dirt to bend Merkel to his will.