Editor's note:
Dora Amador is a journalist.
She was a columnist for El Nuevo Herald for 20 years.
She is a news writer and feature writing editor on Miami's Channel 23 6 pm and 11 pm newscasts.
She was a documentary filmmaker for Channel 23 and 51. She has won four Emmys for her documentaries “Cuba: from trauma to triumph”.
"History of Cuban exile 1959-1989" and "The October crisis". In El Nuevo Herald she was the winner of the "Guillermo Martínez Márquez Excellence in Journalism Award". She is the author of the book "The dissident smile". The comments expressed in this column belong exclusively to the author. See more at cnne.com/opinion
(CNN Spanish) --
What happened on the weekend of January 29 and 30 in the United States shows us that Trump wants to continue with his dangerous and incendiary speech and that he wants a social explosion.
I'm not exaggerating.
It would seem that it is a well laid out plan and it is my intention to alert those who are not yet terrified by what is happening in this country.
I'll lay out what happened in several states that gives me some idea of what Trump might be trying to accomplish: perhaps the outbreak of a rebellion, or perhaps a nationwide armed insurrection to destroy democracy and install a Trump-led dictatorship?
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We know that from the White House he tried to undermine the results of the elections and that he tried to truncate the path of democracy by not recognizing them.
Given the number of people who attended Trump's rally on Saturday, January 29, in Conroe, Texas, (some media reports that there were thousands of attendees, although CNN has not been able to verify it independently), we might think that the former president believes that it was a success.
What caused in the people this demonstration of adoration and faithful following of their leader?
The speech of the one who for them is a "hero" and for me, remembering Joseph Campbell, an expert in mythology, "of a thousand faces".
Trump warned: “If these extremist, ruthless and racist prosecutors do something wrong or illegal, I hope that we will have in this country the largest protests that we have ever had in Washington, in New York, in Atlanta and in other places because our country and our elections are corrupt.
In other words, Trump stirred up the already agitated masses to take to the streets, just as he did by inciting the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, to scrap all who opposed his Republican president, convinced as they are that he had not lost the elections in 2020, which is false, because they insist on the lie that there was fraud by the Democrats.
One can only imagine that the Trumpists who will take to the streets, if the creator of "The Big Lie" (that he was the one who won the elections, not Biden) is imprisoned, the time to fight would have come, and by now we know that many could be armed with assault rifles, pistols, and a fearsome et cetera, including bombs and explosives, as we now know happened outside the Capitol during the insurrection.
It is important to clarify that the call made by Trump that Saturday, alluding to "the ruthless prosecutors" who want to convict him, refers to the attorney general of the state of New York, Letitia James, who says that she has identified "misleading statements" of the Organization Trump on his taxes The legal team for the former president's businesses has said their client has not committed fraud.
James sent him a subpoena to testify under oath.
Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has requested and succeeded in allowing a grand jury to subpoena witnesses in her lead investigation into Trump's attempt to illegally overturn the outcome of the 2020 Georgia presidential election.
Trump says that he has done nothing wrong and that the investigation against him is motivated by political factors.
That is a crime that in Georgia carries up to 20 years in prison.
Willis has requested the protection of the FBI after the many threats, including death, that he has received.
Alongside these two brilliant prosecutors is Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney and successor to Cyrus Vance Jr, who launched an investigation against Trump for alleged fraud in his businesses, manipulation of the value of his properties to save money on loans and evade taxes.
Again, Trump has said the investigation is politically motivated.
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Something else the former president said in his inflammatory speech that Saturday is that he would consider pardoning the assailants on Capitol Hill if he won the 2024 election, because he believes they have been treated unfairly.
You can imagine the sudden hope these convicted criminals might experience upon hearing that promise.
And what about those who could be on the loose prepared to do anything for their boss, who ruled us erratically for four years, spreading disinformation, getting close to controversial leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, who often made racist statements and xenophobic and committed abuses of power?
But with the speech that Saturday in Texas, the danger does not end if we do not do something to avoid what could come.
On Sunday the 30th, Trump said in a statement that then-Vice President Mike Pence could have changed the results of the election and that he had "the power to do so."
That is false, as Pence himself has said several times.
Trump also said that he wanted Pence to do it.
Trump did not care at all about the seditious and terrorist insurrection that was taking place on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. We know that hours passed in which he watched the events on television and did nothing, despite the fact that his daughter Ivanka He begged her several times to stop it, Liz Cheney said, citing "first-hand" testimony about the time.
He cared little or nothing that the mob was looking for his Vice President Mike Pence.
And then we learned that Trump took very seriously some proposals to take over the voting machines.
Sources close to the then president have told CNN that he seriously discussed plans created by his advisers to use the Department of Homeland Security to seize voting machines to undermine election results.
According to the newspaper, the then commander-in-chief refused to make the request to the Pentagon, an idea presented by advisers.
Similarly, the newspaper says, former Attorney General William Barr turned him down.
None did, but it shows once again how far Trump was willing to make people believe that it was he who won the elections and not Biden, a lie that many Trumpists believe blindly, just as they believe that there was no coup attempt.
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On November 8, 2022, the legislative and gubernatorial elections will be held in the United States.
There are many months to go, but I suspect that the time that remains will be dangerous and violent.
Even so, let us not forget that it is in our hands, voting that day against all odds, that those who yearn with unbridled passion to destroy the democracy of the republic do not succeed.
May those of us who believe in democracy, freedom, justice, peace and respect for human rights win.
Despite everything that has been said by the one who for me is the worst president the United States has ever had, I confess that what stupefies me the most is the immense number of Republicans, who I think are immoral, or who due to their immense ignorance will vote by Donald Trump if he manages to run and is not facing investigations for the accusations against him.