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Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: "Americans rightly expect their president not to add fuel to the fire"
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Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticized the election campaign of US President Donald Trump exceptionally harsh.
In an interview with "Bild am Sonntag", the SPD politician commented on Trump's call for double voting and his criticism of the postal vote: "It is disturbing that an American president thinks he needs something like this."
He "is relying on the common sense and common sense of the Americans so that the nefarious attempt to sow doubts about the validity of the election fails in order not to accept an election defeat later," added Maas.
Trump had repeatedly stated that a postal vote could lead to massive fraud in the November 3rd presidential election.
So far, he has not provided evidence of this.
Most recently, the US President had encouraged postal voters to try to also vote at the polling station.
If the postal voting system works as well as its proponents said, "then they will not be able to," argued Trump.
Several states then stressed that double voting would be illegal.
Trump's spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany denied that the president had called for a violation of the law.
She said that he wanted to warn of the potential for fraud by postal voting.
In addition to Trump's election campaign, Maas also criticized the president's behavior in the US protests against racism: "The Americans rightly expect their president not to add fuel to the fire, but to resolve the serious conflicts in American society bit by bit."
Unfortunately, however, it is to be feared that the election campaign would further fuel the conflict.
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