Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended VP JD Vance after he met with members of the right AfD party in Germany and lectured the Germans about supposedly suppressing “free speech.”
JD Vance has met with the leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, breaking a taboo in German politics as the Trump administration continues to court and promote far-right populist parties across Europe. […]
Vance met with Weidel just weeks before a German election in which the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim party appears poised to take second place on a wave of growing anti-establishment sentiment.
