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Ursula von der Leyen is exactly the kind of cultivated, tasteful European who makes Americans most ashamed of Donald Trump and his dumpy, try-hard imitation of European fascism (Photo: EU Commission)

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Trump and von der Leyen — a similar penchant for cronyism

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by Peter Kuras, Berlin,

Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump don’t seem to have much in common.

In fact, the patrician German seems to embody everything that Trump is not — she speaks three lang...

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Peter Kuras is a writer and translator based in Berlin.

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