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I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel.

David Remnick

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David Remnick
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 29
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