The owner of Politico praised the “inspiring message” of the JD Vance speech that was terrified in Europe, reprimanding politicians on the continent to their “deception” response to the US Vice President.

Mathias Döpfnner, CEO Axel jumps“I intentionally misunderstand” Vans at the Munich Security Conference at the end of last week, in which he is The audience surprised By calling for restrictions on freedom of expression in Europe, it was a greater threat to the region than Russia or China.

He also called on the Vice President of the United States to end the political isolation of the far right just before one week before the German federal elections, as it is expected that the alternative party of the Germany Party (AFD) is expected to be a historic final for the second place.

The speech sparked a sharp response from senior German politicians, including Counselor Olaf Schulz and opposition leader Friedrich Mirz. yet Döpfnner -A German citizen said in the possession of the media empire in Berlin-The intended message of Vans is that Washington wants to work with Europe, but the continent needed to determine what it represents first and stops fear of its people.

“Frankly, I think it is an inspiring message,” he told the Financial Times. “You don’t have to take everything literally, but you must try to take it seriously. [the fact] Most Europeans were just a reaction. . . In a kind of mature tone – I think this is not coherent, it is not desirable, which is dangerous because we need a via sub -level security alliance and we need a commercial relationship through the Atlantic. ”

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a tariff on European Union goods and withdraw security guarantees to the continent.

Döpfner, a self -described contradictory, who rotated the so -called waking culture, and the seriousness of Trump’s recent attack on Politico as a “misunderstanding”.

Axel Springer bought the exit in 2021 as part of a batch in the American media market.

Trump described this month Politico, who is proud of political neutrality, as “the rag of the left” and claimed that she had received $ 8 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development, an organization that the US president moved to a great shrinking.

Döpfnner said Trump was suffering from support with subscriptions in a commercial product. “This could be just a misunderstanding,” he said. “I hope that is clarified.”

But the White House press secretary Caroline Levit said, “Subscriptions in Politico on Daem the US tax motivation will not happen.”

The American President’s criticism of Döpfner in the extraordinary position of criticism of the right. Axel Springer president said it was “completely clear” that there was some truth to claim Trump and his supporters that there is a left -wing bias within the main media.

But he said that he hoped that the Trump administration’s commitment will be freely for expression.

He said: “For me, it is almost funny, after two and a half decades in Germany as a right -wing conspiracy center, I have now been played in America as the center of the left plot.” “Frankly, this is exactly the position in which an independent publisher should be.”

Döpfner, 62, is a controversial figure in Germany. Critics, especially on the left, accuse Bild Tablubid and Diete Broadsheet conservative of following the right’s agenda, including migration.

Döpfnner shook a scandal four years ago when he was accused of protecting a former editor in Bild and Protégé who faced allegations of abuse of his authority through sleeping with the employees and was eventually the end Firing.

In 2023, Döpfnner apologized after publishing special textual messages in which he rushed against “fanatical Muslims” and asked the Bild editor to “strengthen” liberal free democrats economically two days before the elections.

The former music journalist – which became a billionaire overnight in 2020 when the widow of the company’s founder sold him 4 percent of its shares in Excel Springer, gave him 15 percent and handed over to her voting rights – the United States despite his expansion in the American market and his seat in the Netflix Council .

But in 2020, he reached the main headlines after an email was sent to employees inviting them to “pray” in order to re-election Trump-a comment later that he was “a ridiculous statement in the circle of people who hate Donald Trump.”

Entrepreneurs in technology, including the CEO of Tesla and Trump’s supporter, who attended his 60th birthday party in Tuscany.

He sent text messages to Musk urging him to buy Twitter, now known as X, shortly before the Tesla founder of the platform became a year in 2022.

Döpfnner, who called for a Tiktok ban in Europe because of its links with the Chinese government and the spread of anti -Semitic and right views, avoid a question about similar content on X since Musk’s acquisition, saying: “Frankly, I can’t judge it.” “I am not active enough.”

He also tackled long -term speculation that he would be interested in buying Gurert Wall Street Journal Robert Murdoch, describing it as a “super brand” that could be seduced in a printed acquisition, although he reduced a chance of sale.

Speaking amid speculation that Murdoch can seek to cancel the title to avoid his transfer to three of his children amid a bitter family hostility, Döpfnner said he focused on his digital portfolio and “in general”. . . We will not buy newspapers. “

But he said that the magazine was one of “excessive brands in the world and I am very excited”, as the other was FT, which he tried to get 10 years ago.

Döpfnner insisted that the idea of ​​submitting an offer to the magazine was a “very theory”, adding: “According to my information, the Wall Street Journal is not for sale.”

He added that if the title becomes available, “of course, we will likely look at it.”

In reference to the potential high price sign of a paper bought by her mother company Murdoch for $ 5.6 billion in 2007, he insisted on “the possibility that we really buy it, which we will get, close to scratch.”