Plenty of Republicans on Tuesday argued that the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block former President Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot is a blow against actual democracy.
One Central American leader strongly agreed, and called out America for its hypocrisy for its treatment of Trump.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who comes from a global region known for autocratic rulers, sounded off on the court’s 4-3 decision on X on Tuesday, saying, “The United States has lost its ability to lecture any other country about ‘democracy.’”
Richard Grennell, a former ambassador under Trump, noted Bukele was the first world leader “to condemn [President] Joe Biden’s fascist moves to keep his opponent off the ballot.”
Tuesday’s post by Bukele was not the first time the Central American leader had knocked America for its hypocrisy under Biden.
In April, when Trump was indicted in New York for allegedly falsifying business records to commit fraud, Bukeke posted on X, “Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted. But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States (sic) ability to use ‘democracy’ as foreign policy is gone.”
Then in November 2022, Bukele, whose country was once the murder capital of the world, told Tucker Carlson that he would not feel safe living in many major cities — such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and Chicago — that are overrun by violent crime while being run by Democrats.
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“The demise of the U.S. has to come from within. No external enemy can cause this much damage. When you’re watching internal operations here you can see cities that were pristinely beautiful 30 years ago [and] are a wasteland right now,” he told Carlson.
“I mean, I’m from El Salvador, a third-world country in Central America, and I myself see cities here and say I wouldn’t live here. That would be unthinkable three decades ago, that a Salvadoran wouldn’t want to live in a U.S. main city.”
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