Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry faulted President-elect Trump on Monday for criticizing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and said the incoming president made an “inappropriate” intervention into foreign politics.

“I thought frankly it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the United States to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner,” Kerry told CNN on Monday.

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