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Reuters: Merkel says she has ‘good relationship’ with Trump despite Frosty Start

Published April 29, 2017 at 4:43 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17.

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she and President Donald Trump have built a “good working relationship” even though the two had frosty exchanges last year that raised fears of damage to the pivotal U.S.-German partnership.

“President Trump and I have developed a good working relationship, which doesn’t rule out having different points of view,” Merkel told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) group of newspapers.