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US Senator Mitt Romney in Washington
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The US Senator Mitt Romney is considered one of the harshest critics of Donald Trump within the Republicans.
Now he has compared his way of doing politics to a wrestling show.
Trump's "big lie" about having lost the US election through alleged fraud "is a bit like the WWF," said Romney on the US broadcaster CNN.
"Entertaining but not real"
The ultra-conservative politician uses the WWF to refer to the old name of the "World Wrestling Foundation", today "World Wrestling Entertainment".
Fights there are staged and acted - but should look real.
"It's entertaining," says Romney.
"But it's not real."
Romney considers the election fraud stories that Trump tells to be conspiracy myths.
He is sure that most US citizens would know that Trump was lying about the matter.
Ex-President Trump left the presidency on January 20 after his election defeat by Biden.
The 75-year-old has not yet admitted his electoral defeat.
At the weekend, he appeared for the first time at a mass rally five months after the end of his term in office.
In the US state of Ohio, Trump spoke under the motto "Save America!" - "Save America!" - in front of thousands of supporters.
There he repeated his accusation that the election was falsified.
Against the president of your own party
Trump's party colleague Romney has been positioning himself against the ex-president for a long time.
After the storm on the Capitol, Romney and six other Republicans supported the impeachment proceedings against the then president, which were discussed in the US Congress.
However, it was not enough for a conviction due to a lack of a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
A year earlier, the US senator had already voted against Trump in the impeachment process because of the Ukraine affair - at the time as the first senator in US history to oppose the president of his own party.
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