A CNN panel said on Tuesday’s show that South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol’s declaration of martial law could somehow be comparable to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
What Yoru made was declaration In an unannounced televised address on Tuesday, the country’s opposition Democratic Party accused the country of being sympathetic to North Korea and intending to incite “insurrection,” but lawmakers later voted to block and overturn the bill within hours. did. CNN’s panel cited President Trump’s comments about using the military to stop violence in the streets and argued that the incident should be a wake-up call to Americans as President Trump soon takes office.
“Obviously, those of us around the table should be talking about why this is an important thing for Americans to pay attention to, especially given that Donald Trump is about to become president in a few weeks. , Trump has said he wants to use military force “to go after his enemies,” CNN White House correspondent MJ Lee said.
playing cards said In an October interview on Fox News, he said he supported deploying the National Guard or military if necessary to thwart “outside agitators” who could cause violence in the streets on Election Day. Democrats and liberal media have accused him of preparing to use the military to arrest political opponents he views as “enemies within”, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff. did.
“You talked about the parallels to January 6th, which are shocking, the very image of a democracy facing this kind of crisis. When you think about Mr. Trump’s return, people are scared. “I think people like the Democratic Party are scared,” said John Bresnahan, co-founder of Punchbowl News. “Because he has encouraged the use of force to achieve political goals or to try to achieve or at least toy with the political goals of January 6th. We’re talking about pardoning some of the rioters, rioters, whatever you want to call them, on January 6th.”
The liberal media, the Democratic Party, and the White House have all tried to portray President Trump as a threat to democracy, calling him a “fascist” ahead of the 2024 election, largely due to the events of the Capitol riot. denounced. Despite that message, Trump won all seven battleground states, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004.
Now the president-elect, he announced in June 2020 that he had “used up to 50% of people”, including members of the military, to respond to the violent riots that have erupted in Washington, D.C., and other major cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death. He said he would use “all available resources.” He called on governors across the country to deploy the National Guard to fight rioters, looters and lawless activity on the streets. (Related: Atlantic writer Pete Hegseth claims he is “eager” to use military force against liberals whom he views as “foreign enemies”)
Colorado, Maine and Illinois have accused President Trump of inciting insurrection in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They tried to exclude President Trump from the Republican primary. The Supreme Court later decided. That ruling was overturned in March by a ruling that the state lacked the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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