VideoThe new United States ambassador to the Netherlands refused on Wednesday to answer questions about his 2015 statement that politicians and cars had been burned by Muslims in the Netherlands, a claim he has not substantiated. “Do you now reach the conclusion that you were wrong when you stated that politicians and cars were being burned?” a reporter asked the ambassador, Peter Hoekstra, in his first news conference with Dutch journalists. “Was that a wrong remark, was it false?”“I issued a statement, I expressed my regrets and my apology for the comments that I made,” the ambassador replied. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyReporters seeking clarification on Wednesday asked him about a half dozen follow up questions. “Are politicians being burned in the Netherlands in the past?

Source: New York Times January 11, 2018 19:46 UTC