The latest round of anti-government protests in Peru has left 17 people dead and 68 others injured. The clashes occurred on Jan. 9 in the city of Juliaca, located near the banks of Lake Titicaca [.]
media establishment. this has implications far beyond, again, a tweet than just any other post. ruth, this is the perfect place to bring you in, you are an expert on authoritarianism, and authoritarian it s. i m wondering, let me get your perspective on what it now means that donald trump and it s 82 million, with his 82 million followers is back on twitter, this social media platform? well, first of all, i wanted to call attention to how unusual our situation is in the u.s., because around the world, we are talking indonesia, guatemala, other countries, leaders who tried to have a self coup which is what january 6th was, and failed, they had to leave the country or they were imprisoned. they had to go into exile, or were in disgrace. we are the only place or someone had a violent insurrection be incited, and now is not only thinking for running for president, or is running, but is also back on twitter. so this is a highly uncharted
new information, let s talk about the secret service. because that seems at the front here of the investigation at this point. and i have to say, what we got last night, both the intensity of those secret service communications, the testimony of that white house individual, my first thought was, wow, we would learn a lot if we could read the text messages of the secret service security details of the president of the united states and vice president of the united states on a day because when i think your committee, more than anyone who s ever looked into this has demonstrated, is that that was the sort of that s where the auto coup, they sort of self coup, by the president against constitutional governance, that s where the tip of the spear was, the men with guns that protect him that he wanted to take with him at the head of the mob as the other men with guns, who protect his vice president were fleeing the same mob what are we going to learn from the secret service? are they be
to your point about learning new information, let s talk about the secret service. because that seems at the front here of the investigation at this point. and i have to say, what we got last night, both the intensity of those secret service communications, the testimony of that white house individual, my first thought was, wow, we would learn a lot if we could read the text messages of the secret service security details of the president of the united states and vice president of the united states on a day because when i think your committee, more than anyone who s ever looked into this has demonstrated, is that that was the sort of that s where the auto coup, they sort of self coup, by the president against constitutional governance, that s where the tip of the spear was, the men with guns that protect him that he wanted to take with him at the head of the mob as the other men with guns, who protect his vice president were fleeing the same mob what are we going to learn from
it s how you show that the state has the ability to impose the rule of law and it is about accountability. authoritarian-ism is about escaping accountability, it s about getting away with it. these hearings and this investigation are part of a process that shows that there is evidence that you can t always get away with it, you can always get with you want. a lot on the right want to compare this to a riot. like they saw during the summer of 2021, blm. but you are adamant that calling this a coup is important, why? the coup is very important because this was an orchestrated attempt, it was technically a self coup when someone who is in power tries to stay there. it was one climactic point in a process that started in