
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersUS President Donald Trump
The German government should reconsider sharing intelligence with the US, as President Trump and his team "blab too much" and could provide sensitive information to Moscow, according to a high-ranking German lawmaker, as cited by local media.
"I have an impression that Donald Trump and his team blab too much," Thomas Oppermann, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) in the German parliament
said, according to various German newspapers.
The official, whose party is part of the ruling coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), said that their intelligence services might receive more harm than good from cooperation with the US.
"It should be taken into account that Trump is a president, who - one should assume - passes sensitive information to Russian representatives," Oppermann said. He did not, however, provide any concrete evidence to back the claim.
The lawmaker also stated that such handling of classified information is a "security risk for the West," warning that German intelligence should be aware of it.
Comment: If these media outlets ever had any sense of journalistic integrity, they've long since lost it by "reporting" on all of this baseless nonsense.