Washington-SANA
American historian Timothy Snyder asserted that the legacy of former US President Donald Trump's administration is a “big lie” that represents a big problem for the United States.
Snyder said in an interview with the German Deutschland Funk Group that the United States “faces a major problem resulting from the lies made by Trump, especially his claims in the presidential elections, and that the electoral system will not succeed as it has divided American society and pushed some Americans to the use of violence, which is a catastrophic matter that must be dealt with. With him in the coming years greatly.
Snyder said, "The problem does not lie with Trump alone, as much as it lies in the lie itself, as many Americans have no confidence in elections and democracy, and it is possible that another politician will pick up this lie and announce to the Americans that they are victims of the established system."
Snyder pointed out that there are many permanent consequences of Trump's legacy on the whole world, including the way he dealt with the problem of climate change and the lies he made in this field, which led to an increase in global warming and its devastating effects on the global situation.
For its part, the German magazine Der Spiegel considered in an article that "Trump's lie that the Democrats expelled him from the White House through electoral fraud led a large segment of Americans to believe that his successor, Joe Biden, is illegal."
The magazine pointed out that “Trump has awakened forces that have always played a bad role in the history of the United States and have recently grown so dramatically that militias and other extreme right-wing groups are no longer marginal phenomena, but have already begun to form a hard-line arm of the Trump movement.”
The magazine pointed out that "Trump's lie constituted a meaningful element for the right-wing .. and the attack on the Capitol building was the beginning of something threatening the situation in the United States."
On the 13th of this month, the US House of Representatives agreed by a majority of its members to hold Trump accountable for inciting the revolt by storming Congress, in a move that would open the door to the Senate to prevent him from assuming the presidency again if convicted.