In what should be considered a major foreign interference in the U.S. electoral process, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has publicly endorsed President Joe Biden for the 2024 election.
Speaking at a school in Berlin, Chancellor Scholz declared that “the current president is better, so I want him to be re-elected.”
President Biden knows “what you have to do to prevent the world from going to war,” the German leader said Monday.
Referring to President Donald Trump, Scholz claimed that “the former president certainly stands for a great division in the country.”
Scholz, who served as Germany’s vice chancellor under Angela Merkel, was at odds with the Trump administration over demands to reduce Germany’s dependence on Russian gas and to shoulder a fair share of NATO defense spending.
British newspaper The Telegraph reported the German leader’s remarks:
Joe Biden is “better” than Donald Trump, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday before adding that he hoped the current US President would be re-elected for a second time.The centre-Left leader accused Mr Trump of being divisive and said it would be bad for Germany and the US if the Republican was to return to the White House.“I think the current president is better, so I want him to be re-elected,” Mr Scholz said, as he answered questions from pupils at a primary school close to Berlin. (…)Biden’s many years of public service mean he knows exactly “what you have to do to prevent the world from going to war,” the Chancellor said.Referring to Mr Trump, he added, “If all people are only against each other, then there cannot be a good future, and that is why the former president certainly stands for a great division in the country.” (…)European governments are concerned over the consequences of a Trump victory for US support for Ukraine and European security in general.
Scholz, Chancellor Merkel’s right-hand man between 2018 and 2021, has pursued the same policies since taking office in 2021. Germany is committed to the disastrous green energy policy, destroying the country’s industrial base. The Merkel-era open borders policy is swarming the country with illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump had slammed Chancellor Merkel for her immigration policy, letting in millions of migrants, mostly young men from Muslim-majority North Africa and the Middle East.
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition,” he tweeted in 2018. “Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” he added.
President Trump was vindicated, as Germany saw a rise in violent migrant crimes, including rapes and murders.
President Trump was also right about Germany’s fatal dependence on Russia for energy needs. At the United Nations gathering in late 2018, the former president warned Merkel’s government against becoming ‘totally dependent’ on Russian gas.
The German political elites and mainstream media mocked him for stating the obvious. The German foreign minister and his team “could be seen smirking alongside his colleagues,” The Washington Post gleefully reported.
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