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“The Donald Trump page has turned, it is already a thing of the past on the international stage,” said Michel. “It is up to Congress to determine how it will work for the next thirteen days.”
Michel calls bringing the American people together the biggest challenge for Joe Biden, the new president. The EU president says what happened on Wednesday was “not a complete surprise,” given Trump’s behavior over the past four years.
The Belgian says that in the last four years it has been difficult to work together with the US, historically an important ally of Europe. “In terms of style, behavior and actions, the Trump administration has crossed border after border,” said the former prime minister of Belgium, “until the climax of Wednesday.”
Johnson: Call completely wrong
The British Prime Minister has also lashed out at Trump in unusually harsh terms. His call to supporters to storm the Washington parliament was “completely wrong,” he says of the Anglo-Saxon ally on the other side of the ocean.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a press conference earlier this week.
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“To the extent that he has encouraged people to storm Congress and to the extent that the president has cast doubt on the outcome of free and fair elections, I believe he was completely wrong,” Johnson said at a news conference.
Johnson welcomed the ratification of Joe Biden’s presidency by the US parliament. The 78-year-old Democrat won in November with 306 so-called electors from Republican Trump, who won 232. According to Trump, the elections have been ‘stolen’.
Capitol surrounded by fences
A six-foot “unclimbable” barrier of fences will be erected around the Capitol for at least the next 30 days, military official Ryan McCarthy said Thursday, according to US media.
The two-meter high fences will also be there during President Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
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