and verification process he's failed in this case but then he says that grylls bigger picture criticism drawing a line between criticizing the u.s. president and anti-american bias he writes quote anti-americanism is deeply alien to me and i am absolutely aware of what germany has the us to thank for a whole lot there spiegel harbors no institutional bias against the united states and of course this story would not be. if it didn't spill on to twitter richard grinnell posted a tweet to further his claim on twitter we have that it's a claim of several spiegel covers from the past in which he writes their spiegel says they don't have any anti-american bias but the facts tell a different story below are only a few examples now of course are more observant viewers might notice that many of these covers are from the george w. bush era so little bit dated of course the spiegel those people has been criticized for many rather blunt similar covers in the trump era his critics went after though