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Schwarzenegger Compares U.S. Capitol Riot To Nazis’ 1938 Kristallnacht Attack On Jews

“President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever.”

Jeffrey Cawood
Schwarzenegger Compares U.S. Capitol Riot To Nazis’ 1938 Kristallnacht Attack On Jews
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Former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger released a video on Sunday condemning President Donald Trump, those in his party who “enabled his lies,” and compared last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to an incident that took place in Nazi Germany more than 80 years ago that is often considered the beginning of the Holocaust.

Seated in front of American and California flags, Schwarzenegger starts the video by reminding viewers that he is an immigrant and then recounts his childhood in post-World War II Austria, where he was born in 1947, two years after the conflict had ended. He described the atmosphere as “the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy.”

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