Trump says Germans 'turning against their leadership' over immigration

Philip Oltermann in Berlin, Julian Borger in Washington and Daniel Boffey in Brussels at the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/donald-trump-attacks-angela-merkel-saying-her-coalition-is-rocking?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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has launched an unprecedented attack on Angela Merkel’s government, tweeting that “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition”.

While the US president has previously been openly critical of Germany’s export surplus and defence spending, he has refrained from openly criticising the country’s migration policy since taking office in 2017.

During the US presidential campaign, Trump called Merkel’s decision to keep open the country’s borders to Syrian refugees in the summer of 2015 “insane”.

In his latest tweet, Trump said “crime in Germany is way up”. In May, Germany’s interior ministry recorded the lowest crime levels since 1992.

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Crime in Germany is the lowest it has been since the 1990s. Trump is lying.