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Arnold Schwarzenegger (73) called on the Americans after the storm on the Capitol in a video message on Twitter to overcome the division of the country.
In a speech “to my fellow Americans and friends around the world,” the former action actor and ex-governor of the US state of California said on Sunday: “We have to heal together from the drama that just happened.
We have to heal as Americans. "
President Donald Trump tried a coup "by misleading people with lies," said Schwarzenegger.
“President Trump is a failed leader.
He will go down in history as the worst president of all time. ”But America will overcome these dark days and come back stronger,“ because we now understand what we have to lose ”.
If President-elect Joe Biden is successful, "the nation will be successful," said Schwarzenegger, who, like Trump, is a member of the Republican Party.
Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria, drew parallels between the storming of the Capitol in Washington and the Jewish pogrom in Germany in 1938 during the Reichspogromnacht, the “night of the broken glass,” as he said.
“Wednesday was broken glass day here in the US.” Schwarzenegger said the mob didn't just break the windows, “they broke the ideas that we took for granted.
You have trampled the principles on which our country was founded. "
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Schwarzenegger cannot explain Trump's behavior according to his own account: “I spent time with Donald.
I have never seen him as he is now. "
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