Angela Merkel told how Donald Trump was fascinated by Putin – UNIAN
The ex-Chancellor of Germany wrote memoirs in which she tried to tell about her vision of why Europe came to a big war.
Donald Trump was fascinated by Vladimir Putin during his first term as president. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about this in her as yet unpublished memoirs.
In an excerpt from her memoirs published by the newspaper Die Zeit, Merkel spoke about her visit to the United States in 2017.
In a private conversation without the presence of strangers, Trump, who was then president of the United States, asked her a number of questions.
“Including my East German origins and my relationship with Putin. Obviously, he was very fascinated by the Russian president. In subsequent years, I got the impression that politicians with authoritarian and…
