Trump admin considered punishing German civil servants because Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is monitoring AfD 

Spiegel: …an escalation may be looming. According to research by SPIEGEL, the US government considered punishing German civil servants months ago. This is according to several former US government officials. They report that the Trump administration was so angered by the classification of the AfD as “definitely right-wing extremist” by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution that the US State Department considered travel bans or even financial sanctions against those responsible…