Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump Would Try To Cause As Much Destruction As Possible Before Officially Leaving Office
By Sarah K. Burris
November
23, 2020
President
Donald Trump is making several moves ahead of leaving office on Jan. 20, 2021,
to destroy President-elect Joe Biden's term in office, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat
explained in part of a video series Sunday.
Photo
via the White House.
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Ben-Ghiat
explained that she started the series of videos because she knew that Trump
would try to cause as much destruction as possible before officially leaving
office.
She cited a
story by New York Times reporter Michael Shear, making it clear that Trump is
using his final days to make Biden's life impossible.
"Watch
very carefully what Trump and the GOP are doing right now," she
instructed. "These end-stage follies, as I can them, are revealing.
They're trying to loot and plunder the Earth. They're trying to rush through
oil drilling leases in Alaska. They're trying to make sure their secrets are
kept, and they're trying to make the world as unsafe as possible so that Biden
will have difficulty restablising foreign relations."
She said
that it's akin to former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, who had a year
before he had to be out of office. That year, he worked to damage the incoming
democracy, which was Chile's first after Pinochet's junta took over 17 years
before. He worked to keep human rights violations secret, made it impossible to
purge staff he installed, and stacked the courts.
In his
book, Pinochet alleged the democracy was all a conspiracy against him.
It sounds
eerily familiar.
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Original Headline: Fascism expert explains the
playbook Trump is following to destroy America before leaving office
Source: The Alternet
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