Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri

@londonvinjamuri

Director, US & Americas. Dean, QEII Academy ; Associate Prof International Relations ; American in London. US, Geopolitics, Human Rights

London (and NYC, NE-2, CA)
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Joined May 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 7

    US Officials face an unavoidable choice, whether to go support Trump and deny his responsibility. Or to take a clear stand against a President who has incited and ignited hatred, division, and now an attempted and violent subversion of democracy. My take.

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  2. 12 minutes ago

    ‘The mob attacks on the Capitol are not so much “unprecedented” as they are consistent with America’s history of white backlash to racial equality and white entitlement to political, economic, and social control.’

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  3. Retweeted
    1 hour ago

    What a difference two days make.

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  4. 25 minutes ago

    “Brock, a fifty-three-year-old father of three who lives in an affluent suburb of Dallas, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1989, with a major in international relations and affairs.”

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  5. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    All parties must isolate and condemn extremist groups promoting political violence. This is not partisanship but patriotism. We are already seeing How Democracies Die play out in the daily news.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Thank you. I hadn’t.

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    Have you seen this one?
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  7. 5 hours ago

    Public opinion polling taken on the day esp the YouGov survey taken at 5pm eastern on the day isn’t something that should be cited by serious analysts or scholars without very strong caveats attached. Date, time, methodology etc.

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  8. 5 hours ago

    This is a must watch video that gives a very tough but fuller picture of what happened in the Capitol.

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    13 hours ago

    We tried to pull together both the reporting and footage to give a sense of just how violent and dangerous the mob storming the Capitol was.

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  10. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Good analysis by Timeline 1. Trump knows Pence will uphold his constitutional duties, but Trump does not tell crowd 2. Trump says: Let’s see what Pence does 3. After mob enters Capitol, Trump tweets that Pence has betrayed him and them

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  11. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    He is retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock, Jr., a Texas-based Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran. In an interview, Brock confirmed that he was the man in the photos and videos.

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  12. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    The rioters fire tear gas *at the police*!

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    Violent clashes between Trump supporters and police outside the Capitol as crowds try to re-enter the building late this afternoon
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  13. 6 hours ago

    On Twitter. Just remember the first principle. Rights carry responsibilities.

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  14. 6 hours ago

    A third view the entire process can begin even after the president is out of office. "The constitutional case for late impeachment has more strengths and fewer flaws than the case against it," Brian Kalt, Michigan State Univ College of Law in widely cited law review article.

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  15. 6 hours ago

    According to a second group of scholars, if the House votes to impeach while the president is in office, the Senate can proceed to a trial even after the president has left office

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  16. 6 hours ago

    One group says a president can be impeached only while in office. "I tend to believe it is only for current office holders," said Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, author of "Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide. "

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  17. 6 hours ago

    Can Trump be tried in the Senate on impeachment charges even after he leaves office? Experts divide into at least three camps. via

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  18. 6 hours ago

    New survey by HuffPost:YouGov. There are now multiple new public opinion surveys coming out. And as the public learns more about what happened, attitudes are likely to change. They already have. This is the third survey I have seen so far.

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  19. 7 hours ago

    But Twitter has moved slowly and too late and history is extremely unlikely to tell its story during these four years in a positive light. If only our history was all that was at stake.

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  20. 7 hours ago

    It is not possible to overstate how consequential a decision it was for Twitter to take down Trump’s Twitter account. 88 million followers that won’t be recovered on another platform. The immediate loss of a platform that the President has used to stoke hatred and incite violence

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  21. 7 hours ago

    Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol

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