German. American. EVP @BertelsmannSt; fm. Director & CEO, German Council on Foreign Relations @DGAPev; @Harvard Co-Founder @futurediplomacy & @Harvard_Europe

Joined November 2011
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity. It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
NEW: President Trump is turning 80. He will celebrate by watching watch half-naked men brutally assault each other What Trump’s party - tied to America’s 250 - reveals about his presidency. His focus is solely on legacy - no matter the political cost theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
🌍 Wie kann Europa handlungsfähig bleiben? @Cluverc und @tsghessenspd zeigen in „Prinzipientreu und pragmatisch“, warum Deutschland neue Allianzen, strategisches Denken und eine Balance aus Werten und Interessen braucht. Jetzt lesen in der neuen Juni-Ausgabe der NG|FH. 📖
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught. A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses. 1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care. That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now. Please stand up and prove him wrong.
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Unter vielen erschreckenden Ideen im AfD-Programm Sachsen-Anhalt ist diese besonders verräterisch: das Bauhaus wird als „wurzellos“ denunziert, genau wie schon von den Nazis. Es geht hier um eine rechtsextreme Kulturrevolution, und da kann eine Landesregierung einiges erreichen.
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Extraordinary Letter. Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger. "The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. wapo.st/4o9GMHL
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of. And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test. His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.” Not whether it works. Not whether Congress authorized it. Whether it pleases Trump. This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people. To my Republican colleagues: where are you? Congress passed this funding. You voted for it. Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend. Grow a spine. This is not about left or right. It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt. History will remember who stood up and who looked away. nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/po…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
#Trump braucht eine schnelle Einigung mit dem Iran - Netanjahu will weiterkämpfen und die Terrormiliz Hisbollah unschädlich machen. Klassischer Interessenkonflikt. Mit @Cluverc 👇 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcas…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
It has begun. The US State Department is about to fund Russophile parties across Europe. The implementation of the White House new Security Strategy
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
“Around 2,000 U.S. diplomats have left the Foreign Service over the last year, either through layoffs or forced retirements, taking with them decades of institutional knowledge, experience in crisis response & highly specialized language skills paid for by the U.S. government” nbcnews.com/politics/nationa…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Over the weekend the former head of Trump's Border Patrol attended a summit with fascists from around the world who are calling for "Weimar solutions" and it for some reason has received almost no press coverage. theredoubt.net/why-did-the-p…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Pope Leo presented a sweeping manifesto on artificial intelligence this week, calling to "disarm" the technology. What could this mean for the future of AI? Guest anchor @biannagolodryga spoke with AI ethics expert and Vatican consultant Father @paolobenanti:
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Europa muss den Fähigkeitsaufbau konsequent vorantreiben und den Schutz vor Russland priorisieren. Dabei dürfen wir uns nicht einschüchtern lassen. Russland verstärkt die kognitive und hybride Kriegsführung gegen Europa und verfolgt die Strategie „Eskalation zur De-Eskalation“: RUS eskaliert hybrid und kognitiv gegen uns, damit wir uns selbst bei der Unterstützung der Ukraine einschränken aus Selbstabschreckung. Das wäre genau falsch! Russland versteht nur Stärke und reagiert nur auf militärische Stärke und Konsequenz. Deshalb sollten wir die Unterstützung für die Ukraine ausbauen und intensivieren!
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Poland, Baltic states, now Romania. More and more Russian provocations. Yesterday the former president @MedvedevRussiaE said that the peaceful sleep of the EU citizens is over. Everyone in NATO should finally start taking these facts and words seriously.
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core. The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old. It had fewer than 50 employees. And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it. Here is the part the administration tried to bury. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast. One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done. Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion. A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son. This is public money. Your money. Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for. And there is more coming. A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review. This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer. propublica.org/article/donal…
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi confirms the White House directly intervened to force the Pentagon to give a record-breaking loan to a startup just 3 months after Don Jr. invested in it. The Trump administration is looting the country!
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Expert Tara Setmayer exposes massive Trump family corruption on CNN. She confirms Don Jr's net worth exploded from $50M to $300M in one year as their corporations suddenly received massive government contracts. The White House is actively looting the taxpayers!
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court. That is nuclear-level language from a judge. “Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism. It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme. And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags: - the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount - and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries Translation? The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine. That is an absolutely extraordinary development.
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Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook retweeted
BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty & my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption
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