President-elect Donald Trump’s election to a second term cannot be labeled a “comeback” as he never went away and poses a threat to the US system, the professor of US and International Politics at the UCD Clinton Institute Scott Lucas says.
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00:00This comeback by Donald Trump, I mean, none of us would have imagined this would be happening four years ago, would we?
00:08Well, Tom, I don't call it a comeback by Donald Trump because he never went away.
00:15And the challenge he presents, first and foremost, to the US system, never went away.
00:22I mean, I think it's a useful reminder that four years ago on this day, I was working for Turkish television and I was doing live coverage of what should have been the smooth certification of Joe Biden as the 46th US president.
00:41But instead, as I was giving commentary, I was watching live shots of hundreds of people crossing barricades, pushing aside Capitol police and raiding the US Capitol, the Capitol attack.
00:58And that was a Capitol attack, which was, yes, instigated by Donald Trump and by his supporters as they tried to overturn the 2020 election.
01:10And that was a Capitol attack, which was, yes, instigated by Donald Trump and by his supporters as they tried to overturn the 2020 election.
01:20And that was a Capitol attack, which was, yes, instigated by Donald Trump and by his supporters as they tried to overturn the 2020 election.