There has been reaction from around the world to yesterday’s events in Washington.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians are “deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy in the United States.”
He called the U.S. “our strongest and closest ally,” adding democracy in the U.S. must be upheld and it will be.
Former U.S. president George W. Bush called the violence “sickening and heartbreaking.”
Barack Obama said, “history will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election.”
He noted it also shouldn’t be a surprise.
Another former president, Bill Clinton, said the assault was fueled by four years of “poison politics, spreading deliberate misinformation and pitting Americans against one another.”
