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Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows
REUTERS ^ | Jan 18, 2024 | Sabine Siebold and Friederike Heine

Posted on 01/19/2025 6:11:14 AM PST by McGruff

Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters.

The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states."

"Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power," it says.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 01/19/2025 6:11:14 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

The Europeans, who have been subsidized by the US taxpayer for the past 80 years, need to be told a simple response: It ain’t your business, Mister.


2 posted on 01/19/2025 6:15:12 AM PST by laconic ( )
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To: McGruff

The Facist Left around the world is shaking in their boots. Or panties.


3 posted on 01/19/2025 6:18:39 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: McGruff

Ambassador Andreas Michaelis is worried about not being invited to all those liberal and/or leftist dinner parties that he enjoyed so wonderfully over the past four years.


4 posted on 01/19/2025 6:20:44 AM PST by no_go_lie
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To: McGruff

They do realize that our media has not been free, fair, balanced, or anything like that for over 20 years right? The things that I am starting to see come out from the left is really just astounding how brainwashed for the lack of a better word they actually are


5 posted on 01/19/2025 6:22:33 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence

What "independence" would that be? He must mean "Dem-dependence."

6 posted on 01/19/2025 6:22:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: McGruff

Good. Unlike 2017, leakings are not from the Trump camp but from those who are plotting against Trump ...


7 posted on 01/19/2025 6:23:42 AM PST by paudio (NEW MATH: 45=47)
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To: no_go_lie

When Germans make a mistake, it is a big one. Big!


8 posted on 01/19/2025 6:23:53 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: McGruff

Persona non grata.


9 posted on 01/19/2025 6:24:10 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: McGruff

Recall this loon .
The Weak kneed Krauts will get the message.


10 posted on 01/19/2025 6:24:34 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: McGruff

I am reminded of the Zimmerman Telegram.


11 posted on 01/19/2025 6:25:36 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: no_go_lie

And who gives a rats behind.


12 posted on 01/19/2025 6:35:04 AM PST by riverrunner
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“Germany’s ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence”

I tend to give people from outside of the US the benefit of the doubt because they’re not immersed in what we have to deal with from the Left and often have limited English capabilities.

But this dude as an Ambassador to the US and if he REALLY CLAIMS that “law enforcement” and the “media” have ANY independence under Biden (at least when it comes to politics), he is flat-out LYING.

My guess is that the Democrats are supplying talking points to him and others like him, and if they are asked some simple questions - like about the Trump case in NY City, they simply have no clue. They just say what they’re asked to say, and then walk away.


13 posted on 01/19/2025 6:35:40 AM PST by BobL
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To: McGruff

He has no clue what he’s talking about.


14 posted on 01/19/2025 6:38:22 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: McGruff

Send him home.


15 posted on 01/19/2025 6:42:11 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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Leftist London Mayor Sadiq Khan says in an earlier post:

“The far right is on the march,” Mayor Khan exclaimed. “From Switzerland and Sweden to Hungary, Austria and Italy, European nations are coming under the influence of extreme nativist parties that are hostile to democratic institutions, immigrant populations and fact-based journalism.”

That sounds a whole lot like what this leftist German Ambassador is saying. A pattern emerges.

16 posted on 01/19/2025 6:46:19 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: McGruff

Remove his credentials. How do you say “next” in German?


17 posted on 01/19/2025 6:46:44 AM PST by montag813
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To: BobL

“But this dude as an Ambassador to the US and if he REALLY CLAIMS that “law enforcement” and the “media” have ANY independence under Biden (at least when it comes to politics), he is flat-out LYING.”

Exactly correct. Accusing Trump of doing what the left is already doing.


18 posted on 01/19/2025 6:47:37 AM PST by marktwain
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To: McGruff

So, is the German being expelled on Tuesday?


19 posted on 01/19/2025 6:54:52 AM PST by qaz123
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Send this ambassador home. He’s not welcome in my country anymore.


20 posted on 01/19/2025 6:57:06 AM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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