Showing posts with label overthrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label overthrow. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2024

Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme

While living in New York, Guo developed a close relationship with Trump's former onetime political strategist, Steve Bannon. In 2020, Guo and Bannon announced a joint initiative to overthrow the Chinese government. 

Prosecutors say hundreds of thousands of people were convinced to invest more than $1bn in entities Guo controlled...

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Calls to 'fight' and echoes of Jan. 6 embraced by CPAC attendees

"Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely," he said Thursday. "We didn't get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it."… 

"After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America," he declared…

Monday, January 8, 2024

Donald Trump doesn’t sign Illinois pledge not to overthrow government - The Washington Post

Republican polling leader Donald Trump did not sign a loyalty oath requested of candidates for election in Illinois that asks, among other things, to swear that they won't support overthrowing the government, according to an analysis of candidate petitions by the local news outlets WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times...


Saturday, November 19, 2022

Oath Keepers called for ‘violent overthrow’ of US government, trial hears | US Capitol attack | The Guardian

The prosecutor sought to rebut suggestions that Rhodes's rhetoric was simply bluster, telling jurors that his messages weren't "ranting and raving" but were "deadly serious". 
"The way they have appointed themselves to be above the law is why they are here today," she said. "The sense of entitlement that led to frustration followed by rage and then violence – that is the story of this conspiracy."…


Friday, January 29, 2021

When white supremacists overthrew a government

In November 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of 2,000 white men expelled black and white political leaders, destroyed the property of the city’s black residents, and killed dozens--if not hundreds--of people. How did such a turn of events change the course of the city? For decades, the story of this violence was buried, while the perpetrators were cast as heroes. Yet its impacts resonate across the state to this day. In the new Vox series Missing Chapter, Vox Senior Producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported and often overlooked moments from the past to give context to the present. Join her as she covers the histories that are often left out of our textbooks. Our first season tackles stories of racial injustice, political conflicts, even the hidden history of US medical experimentation. 

Thursday, September 10, 2020

'Transgender Black Marxists' seek to overthrow U.S., Trump backer Michele Bachmann says

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., made a number of bizarre claims during an interview with a religious news program last week, among them that "transgender Black Marxists" are trying to take down the U.S. government.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-black-marxists-seek-overthrow-u-s-trump-backer-michele-n1239683

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Trump administration to tap into frozen Venezuelan government funds to revive efforts to oust Maduro - The Washington Post

The Trump administration is tapping into more than $300 million in frozen Venezuelan government funds in an effort to give new momentum to its elusive goal of ousting President NicolƔs Maduro. About $20 million will be used to send pandemic relief supplies to Venezuela via international health organizations, as fear of the novel coronavirus and the rigors of everyday survival diminish already lagging enthusiasm for public activism against Maduro.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-administration-to-tap-into-frozen-venezuelan-government-funds-to-revive-efforts-to-oust-maduro/2020/08/20/b0024968-df20-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Venezuelan Crisis: The Long History Of U.S. Intervention | AJ+

Trump held secret meetings in 2017 with Venezuelan military officers to discuss plans to overthrow President NicolĆ”s Maduro, according to a 2018 NYT report. But it’s not the first time the U.S. government has meddled in Venezuelan politics...
https://youtu.be/1jG5q1pdQYE

Thursday, October 25, 2018








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