Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, appeared to confirm Friday that President Donald Trump had complained privately about Germany, but he pushed back against the notion that Trump was aggressive in his criticism.
Juncker instead described a “very frankly constructed meeting” with Trump in Brussels and said that it was not “aggressive” like news outlets had reported, according to Politico.
Juncker’s intervention, at a press conference ahead of Friday’s meeting of G7 leaders in Taormina, Sicily, came after reports in the German press, sourced to someone in the room, claimed that Trump had complained about the “terrible” trade deficit between the …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
