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Lee Heidhues 5.3.2025
Felon fascist Donald Trump’s surrogate flunkies VP JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are interfering and lashing out at the German domestic intelligence Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) agency after it labeled the Alternative for Deutschland “extremist.”
That’s no surprise. Donald Trump is a kindred soul with dictators and the most incendiary, radical, far right political parties worldwide. During the recent German election campaign, Trump’s loudmouth cheerleader Elon Musk immersed himself in the effort to gain the Chancellorship for the AfD.
Felon fascist Trump is one of the most vilified and scorned people on the planet. The reputation of America as a beacon of enterprise and innovation is being destroyed by one man. Trump doesn’t care.
He’s a petty criminal despot who craves the attention. The Trump flunkies blast at Germany lays bare the extremist tenor of their leader’s mind.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 5.3.2025
Top-ranking officials in US President Donald Trump’s administration were quick to criticize Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV on Friday for designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” entity.
“The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment,” VP JD Vance wrote on X.
In February, Vance met with AfD leader Alice Weidel in Munich after delivering a contentious speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he accused European nations of failing to defend free speech, calling out Germany in particular.
Vance complained that the AfD was being ostracized and called for it to end. The US vice president’s statements angered officials in Berlin.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also waded in on Friday, calling the AfD designation as a right-wing extremist outfit as “tyranny in disguise.”
“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition,” Rubio said on X. “That’s not democracy — it’s tyranny in disguise.”
He said “Germany should reverse course.”
The BfV disagreed. The agency said the party’s positions on ethnicity were incompatible with democracy, noting that the AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society.“
It also highlighted the party’s use of hateful rhetoric and incitement to undermine democratic institutions.
The BfV had previously designated several local AfD branches as right-wing extremist groups, but it now said it decided to give the entire party the label due to its attempts to “undermine the free, democratic” order in the country.
The designation gives authorities greater powers to monitor the party’s activities.
The AfD slammed the decision as “politically motivated.”
The AfD, founded in 2013, has surged in popularity over the past few years by capitalizing on fears over migration. It is now Germany’s largest opposition party, after securing over 20% of the vote in February’s election, a record result and behind only the center-right CDU/CSU bloc.
The AfD, however, remains excluded from government due to the other parties’ refusal to collaborate with it due to its extremist tendencies.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-criticizes-germany-for-labeling-afd-extremist/a-72423560
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