What Hofreiter is suggesting is that Olaf Scholz is acting in Russia’s interests.

It is a blatant, actually outrageous insinuation, it surpasses everything Hofreiter said about Scholz in the previous two days. Not even Friedrich Merz would accuse the Chancellor of that.

The moderator leaves it at that, he doesn’t follow up, but Hofreiter reiterates the sentence: “That’s what people who are involved in this say. That this is the real hidden agenda.”

And no one in the room disagrees.

Stab in the back myth here we go! Even the Spiegel author thinks this guy is nuts.