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The head of US diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, responded to critics abroad and others, such as the former president George W. Bush, with which they compared United Statess with a “banana republic” after Donald Trump supporters entered the Capitol.
“This defamation reveals the misunderstanding of the banana republics and democracy in the United States,” said the Secretary of State and a close associate of Trump.
A number of foreign critics and former US President George W. Bush launched the analogy after a crowd, recently ignited by Donald Trump, stormed the Capitol and disrupted a Senate session in which the triumph of Joe Biden.
Pompeo added on Twitter that “in a banana republic, the violence of the masses determines the exercise of power. U.Slaw enforcement officials repressed that violence so that representatives of the people could exercise power in accordance with the law and constitutional government. “
Bush on Wednesday pointed to the “irresponsible behavior” of members of his Republican Party as a catalyst for the “uprising.”
“This is how the results of an election are contested in a banana republic, not our democratic republic,” he added.
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