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Trump’s anti-Merkel Twitter tirade

By France 24
20 June 2018   |   7:40 am
As discontent mounts over images showing distressed children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border, Donald Trump has launched a second blistering attack on Angela Merkel via Twitter; most analysts see it as a diversion tactic.

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