German MP: Trump and his team "blab too much"

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The German government should reconsider sharing intelligence with the US, as President Trump and his team "blab too much" and could provide sensitive information to Moscow, according to a high-ranking German lawmaker, as cited by local media.

"I have an impression that Donald Trump and his team blab too much," Thomas Oppermann, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) in the German parliament said, according to various German newspapers.

The official, whose party is part of the ruling coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), said that their intelligence services might receive more harm than good from cooperation with the US.

"It should be taken into account that Trump is a president, who - one should assume - passes sensitive information to Russian representatives," Oppermann said. He did not,...