Source: Time
The new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands is apologizing after a bizarre exchange with a Dutch reporter went viral in both countries.
When Pete Hoekstra, a former Congressman from Holland, Mich., was confronted with remarks he made about there being “no-go zones” in the Netherlands, he told journalist Wouter Zwart of news program Nieuwsuur, “I didn’t say that. That is actually an incorrect statement. We would call it fake news.”
Then Zwart played the clip of Hoekstra, a conservative Republican, from a 2015 conference saying, “The Islamic movement has now gotten to the point where they have put Europe in chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, where there are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned.”
He added: “And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.”
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