Guy Verhofstadt, a former Brexit coordinator in the European Union and prime minister of Belgium, expressed despair Tuesday over former President Donald Trump's landslide victory overnight in the Iowa Republican caucuses. .
Using an image of CNN's prediction of President Trump's victory, the top Eurocrat wrote on social media that Republicans supporting Trump's return as president in 2024 are somehow a threat to the democratic process.
Republicans send a message to the world: Democracy is fighting for survival…
Europe is also closed! https://t.co/264amNsF5w
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) January 16, 2024
As Breitbart News reported, after his landslide victory, Trump holds the record for the largest margin of victory in the history of the Iowa Republican caucuses, more than double the previous one.
Mr. Trump's victory on Monday was so decisive that the Associated Press, CNN and other major news outlets suspended the campaign just 30 minutes after the caucuses began, with results just beginning to trickle in.
This is not the first time Verhofstadt, 70, has expressed fear of Trump and a commitment to America First diplomacy.
This year, former President Trump was proven correct in his criticisms of the European Union's globalist environmental policies and Russia's dependence on energy, but after the Ukraine war, both were exposed as catastrophic failures of leadership. It was done. https://t.co/IF2i2mPPG5
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 2, 2023
Last year, he claimed the former president was a greater threat to peace than Vladimir Putin or Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Verhofstadt made the comments in response to President Trump, who said on his first day if re-elected to the White House in 2024 that he would seek to broker a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev (Kiev). Said: “Re-elected Trump promises to surrender to President Putin within 24 hours.”
Verhofstadt added: “He is as much an enemy of freedom as Putin or Xi Jinping…but he is fighting to destroy democracy from within!”
President Trump sparked this in 2018. rage in Europe after he declared that the US paid “nearly the entire cost of NATO” to protect countries that “cheat us on trade.”
