Documents show German party\u2019s scramble to request support after president\u2019s 2016 election win and co-leader\u2019s pursuit of Steve Bannon<\/p>\n
A data leak from Germany\u2019s far-right German Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) has revealed the extent of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and other leading figures in the Maga movement, stretching back more than a decade.<\/p>\n
The trove reveals the pains the AfD took in wooing the president, whom they saw from the beginning as a potential ally, with senior party officials agonising over the wording of an obsequious congratulatory telegram when he was elected in 2016, which included the wish that his \u201chopes as a person be fulfilled\u201d.<\/p>\n
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