Merkel Dodges Trump's 'Insane' Comment on German Refugee Influx

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel dodged Donald Trump’s assertion that her reluctance to halt the inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees is “insane.”

“She has nothing to say about it,” Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, said at a government news briefing in Berlin on Monday.