I kinda suggest this scenario probably played itself out.
Shortly after the November 2016 election, some insiders with the Obama camp (maybe the US Ambassador....maybe Hillary's team....maybe White House connections themselves) suggested that a good bit was going to be played out and that Trump would be gone by the end of 2017 (charges, resignation, or impeachment). This assuring 'game' led them to be thinking that Trump was just a short-term 'problem' and then things would resolve themselves.
So by the end of 2017....the same sources of insider info, tried to reassure Merkel and the German intellectuals yet again....that the Mueller investigation would result in charges or a resignation. So all of 2018 played out.
Here in the spring....the same sources kept reassuring folks that the report would settle the mess.
Now? My humble guess is that various Obama and Clinton insiders are hinting that Trump can be beaten in the contest and the Germans just need to be patient.
If November 2020 comes and Trump wins? Well....all this patience is fine but you'd be talking about four more years, and again in my humble opinion.....you could be looking at yet another Trump-like candidate appearing in 2024.
If this German coalition were to fall, and a new election were to be called.....there's this debate over who might be the CDU pick, and if they might go to someone who wasn't like Merkel and who was mostly just plain neutral over Trump. With the Green Party and SPD folks.....it's a zero-percent chance.
All of this.....just fed 'fake' info by insiders in Washington, and the intellectuals in Germany haven't figured that out yet? More or less.
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