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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on March 28, 2017, 02:07:46 pm

Title: Story about Trump handing Merkel a bill was made up by the Sunday Times.
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on March 28, 2017, 02:07:46 pm

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/looks-like-media-messed-up-again-on-another-supposed-trump-scoop/article/2618598#.WNmYtLB70SA.twitter

Just when you think media is ready to calm down and cover President Trump more carefully, they prove you wrong.

What appears to be the latest in a long string of bogus reporting on the Trump administration comes courtesy of the Sunday Times, which reported on March 26 that the president handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel a fake multibillion-euro invoice for her country's NATO obligations when they met earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

The story is completely false, according to Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert.