Arnold Schwarzenegger says the pro-Trump mob perpetrated an American Kristallnacht on Capitol Hill
That’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican former California governor, comparing the events of last week to Nazi Germany, laying the blame for the violence at the feet of President Trump.
“The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol, but the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol. They shattered the ideas we took for granted,” Schwarzenegger continued. “They did not just break down the doors of the building of American democracy. They trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.”
And, he said, it was all built on falsehoods by the president.
“President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, and of a fair election,” he explained in a tweet that went viral on Sunday. “He sought a coup by misleading people with lies.”
Schwarzenegger, in his video message, said he saw similar events in his homeland after the breakdown in democracy surrounding the Second World War.
“I’ve never shared this so publicly because it’s a painful memory, but my father would come home drunk, once or twice a week, and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother,” he said. “It all started with lies and and lies and lies and intolerance … there is fear and all over the world that something like this could happen right here.”
Schwarzenegger went on to bash Trump as a “failed leader” who “will go down in history as the worst president ever. The good thing is that he will soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet.”
Harking back to his Catholic education, he invoked the principle of a “servant’s heart,” saying that what’s needed today in America is elected officials with public servants’ hearts.
He pledged support to President-elect Joe Biden in the task of uniting a riven population.
Watch his full speech:
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This isn’t the first time Schwarzenegger has feuded publicly with Trump. Back in 2017, he announced he would not return for a second season as Trump’s replacement on “The Apprentice,” blaming the president’s involvement in the show as an executive producer as “baggage.”
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