Donald Trump’s flip-flop on Angela Merkel is mind-boggling
By Aaron Blake September 29 at 10:27 PM
Forty-six days ago, Donald Trump reached beyond America's borders for a bogeywoman to compare Hillary Clinton to: German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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It wasn't his first attack on either. Clinton may be the main target in Trump's stump speeches, but Merkel has been an occasional guest star for months, with the Republican nominee charging that she's caused crime in Germany to rise to unbelievable levels and created a "catastrophe" for her country. But in an interview airing Thursday night, Trump pulled perhaps the biggest about-face of his campaign: Merkel, he said, was a world leader he admired.
Asked by New England Cable News about a world leader he wanted to "emulate", here's what Trump said: “Well, I think Merkel is a really great world leader, but I was very disappointed ... with the whole thing on immigration. I think it’s a big problem. I was always a Merkel person. But I think she made a very tragic mistake a year and a half ago."
It's almost like Trump was asked about a world leader he really liked, and Merkel was the first to come to mind — and then he immediately thought better of it.
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Putin = Monday
Kim Jong Un = Tuesday
etc.
Or maybe he lost track.
