After the german election 2009, dutch journalist Rob Savelberg asks Chancellor Merkel, why she appointed Wolfgang Schäuble as Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Schäuble was involved in a corruption affair in 1999. Back then he told an investigation comitee that he had "just forgotten" about a DM100,000 cash-donation by weapons dealer Karlheinz Schreiber in 1994.
Translation:
Rob Savelberg: "Today you're talking a lot about money, about finances of Germany. Now you want to staff the Treasury Department with a person, who officially admitted to the german parliament that he had met a weapons dealer only once and forgot about getting DM100,000 from him. How competent is such a person that you trust him with the finances of 82 million germans?"
Chancellor Merkel: "Because I trust him"
All other (mostly german) journalists did not have the balls to ask such a question. What a shame!