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January 07, 2021Boris Johnson "condemns" Donald Trump's behavior and openly accuses him of fomenting yesterday's riots.
The British Prime Minister said this during a briefing in Downing Street on the Covid emergency, answering a question about it.
Johnson called "completely wrong" how the outgoing Republican president has repeatedly "raised doubts" about the outcome of the recent White House election and Joe Biden's victory.
"For my whole life - said Prime Minister Tory - America has represented a bastion of important things, of a certain idea of freedom and democracy".
Hence the reaction of bewilderment to what happened yesterday in Washington.
"Trump - Johnson said - encouraged people to attack Capitol Hill" and "constantly raised doubts about the outcome of a free and fair election, which I believe was completely wrong".
"What President Trump said is completely wrong and I condemn unreservedly that he encouraged people to act in the shameful way they did on Capitol Hill."
The British prime minister then stressed that he was now "happy that the president-elect (Joe Biden) has been duly confirmed in his office and that democracy has prevailed".