{"id":710248,"date":"2026-11-03T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710248"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:00:34","slug":"german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-apparently-suffered-an-accident-that-injured-his-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710248","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz apparently suffered an accident that injured his eye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sir_Nobody1\/status\/2117094974978203854?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Eye Club &#8211; X\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the black eye, Olaf was due to answer questions about his meetings with banking executives at Warburg Bank, the Hamburg institution at the center of the Cum-Ex tax scandal \u2014 a scheme that cost German taxpayers billions.\u00a0 As mayor of Hamburg, Scholz met with bank co-owner Christian Olearius multiple times. After those meetings, the city\u2019s tax office let a \u20ac47 million tax bill lapse.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was postponed. No new date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>When Scholz eventually faced questions, the detail-obsessed former lawyer \u2014 a man famous for his memory \u2014 offered a stunning defense: he couldn\u2019t recall what was discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz\u2019s black eye\u00a0 joined a growing gallery of powerful figures photographed with unexplained facial injuries \u2014 often right before they were scheduled to talk, testify, or disclose something inconvenient.\u00a0 The black eye isn\u2019t the scandal. The forgetting is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Eye Club &#8211; X\u00a0 Before the black eye, Olaf was due to answer questions about his meetings with banking executives at Warburg Bank, the Hamburg institution at the center of the Cum-Ex tax scandal \u2014 a scheme that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710253,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710248\/revisions\/710253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}