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Schwarzenegger Shares 'Painful Memory' About Post-WWII Childhood. Calls For Supporting Biden
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021
Arnold Schwarzenegger has released a seven-minute video on Twitter denouncing Wednesday’s events at the Capitol, and comparing the acts of the Proud Boys and others involved in that day’s violent mob to the acts of the Nazis during Kristallnacht.
He said, in part:
“I grew up in Austria, I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys. Wednesday was the day of broken glass right here in the United States. The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol.”
One of those men, he said, was his father.
Schwarzenegger went on to note that the events of Kristallnacht and the Nazis’ genocidal regime were started by “lies, and lies, and lies, and intolerance,” similar to the lies told by President Trump in an effort to overturn the results of the election.
Calling Trump a “failed leader,” Schwarzenegger added that the former host of The Apprentice “soon will be as irrelevant as an old tweet,” and appealed to both members of his own Republican party and Democrats to join forces in working with President-elect Joe Biden.
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