A leading German politician brands US President Donald Trump’s comments on the events surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia as “highly dangerous.”
Martin Schulz, who is Chancellor Angela Merkel’s main challenger in next month’s election, says Germany has to “do everything to avoid things here going the way they are in America.”
Schulz was asked in an interview with German media group RND about Trump’s comments that “there’s blame on both sides” for the weekend violence in Charlottesville.
In extracts of the interview published today, Schulz is quoted as saying that “the downplaying of Nazi violence in Trump’s incoherent comments is highly dangerous.”
Schulz, who leads Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, says it’s important to “stand decisively against those who sow hatred. Always. And everywhere.”
— AP
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