Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat

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    At the Munich Security Conference where Western allies have long forged united fronts erupted Saturday into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. European leaders, would-be Democratic challengers and even the president’s Republican backers took the floor to rebuke the president’s go-it-alone approach. The audience applauded Merkel, as Ivanka sat silent in the audience. There are more BMW jobs in South Carolina than there are in Bavaria.

    Angela Merkel Rejected President Trump's Claims That German Cars Are a Security Threat
    http://time.com/5531179/angela-merkel-german-cars-threat/

    (Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel took President Donald Trump to task before an audience of senior security officials in Munich, calling his administration’s suggestion that European autos are a threat to U.S. national security a “shock.”

    In a pointed defense of multilateral institutions ahead of a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Munich Security Conference, the German leader called for global trade and cooperation. The biggest BMW plant is in South Carolina, she said, not in the car maker’s homeland of Bavaria in southern Germany.

    “Look, we’re proud of our cars,” Merkel said Saturday. “We’re allowed to be. And these cars are built in the United States of America.”
     
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