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Ex-US President Donald Trump: "Thanks to the very great Mathias Döpfner"
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Is the CEO of Axel Springer Verlag, Mathias Döpfner, happy about this compliment?
Former US President Donald Trump publicly thanks him on his social media platform Truth Social.
Trump writes: »Thanks to the very great Mathias Döpfner.
The good news is WE WON.
By far.” Trump continues to spread the lie that he and not US President Joe Biden won the last presidential election.
The background to Trump's effusive homage: an e-mail from Döpfner to his closest executives a few weeks before the 2020 US election. In it he wrote: »Let's all take an hour in the morning on November 3 and pray that Donald Trump becomes President of the United States of America again?” The Washington Post had uncovered this.
In the email, Döpfner then listed what he believes to be Trump's most important achievements as president, from security in the Middle East to defending free democracies against China and Russia.
“No American government has done more in the last 50 years.” Trump obviously feels flattered by this.
When asked about the e-mail by the Washington Post, Döpfner initially denied everything: “It doesn't exist.
That was never sent and was never even thought of.« The »Washington Post« did not give up and presented Döpfner with a printed version of the e-mail.
Suddenly the publishing boss could remember.
The email may have been an "ironic, provocative statement."
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