'Right-wing extremist organizations are still operating throughout the United States, have influence on some members of Congress, and continue to maintain links with their counterparts in other countries.'
In the 2005 film The President’s Last Bang, Korean audiences were able to glimpse the behind-the-scenes events surrounding the assassination of strong-arm ruler Park Chung-hee. The movie is something of a satire, given the baroque murder plot and the incompetence of the perpetrators. Back in 1979, however, Koreans were shocked by the “10-26 incident” and worried about the trajectory of South Korean politics.
But there is nothing funny about what is happening in American politics today. Let’s briefly review the details of what was essentially a plot against America—against the constitution, against U.S. democracy, against the rule of law. All of this was prelude to the events of January 6, 2021. On that day, the results of the Electoral College votes that took place in the states in mid-December were officially tallied in Congress. Vice President Pence was then legally required to certify those results and officially announce the winner of the presidential election.
Thanks to the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, we now know that members of the Trump administration expected that the situation would likely turn violent that day, that Trump himself knew that some of his supporters were armed, that the president tried to join the crowd streaming toward the Capitol building, and that many of the president’s top allies in Congress were angling for preemptive pardons for their actions to overturn the results of the...
For instance, four days after the presidential election, Trump legal advisor Rudy Giuliani spoke to the press to discuss his client’s efforts to dispute the election results in Pennsylvania. The press conference was held at the Four Seasons.
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