'If you're having a coup and summoned everybody and you expect to be anointed as the head of a new illegitimate government, you have to be there.'
After a year of investigation into the Capitol riot, the former president has been accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and undermine the American democratic system.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat who chairs the congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, said at theon Thursday that"Jan 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one writer put it shortly after Jan 6, to overthrow the government"—and that the attack was"Trump's last stand."
"I was really pleased to see Chairman Thompson use that word [coup] because it's the right word for something that's the result of a process that started—in a sense it started before November 2020—because Trump had been trying to discredit elections for several years and forming his personality cult so the faithful would rally when he summoned them," Ben-Ghiat told CNN after being played a clip from the hearing.
"But coups can take months or years to plan and this was a multi-pronged attempt to overthrow our democracy. It's worth reviewing that he tried so many things simultaneously. He had Generaltrying to have martial law or military intervention and he tried the trickery that happened with the Georgia Secretary of State.
Ben-Ghiat, a professor of Italian and history at New York University, is an expert on the"strongman", a figure that's central to her latest book"Strongmen—Mussolini to the present", which explores how illiberal leaders"use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo to stay in power."
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