The Yoon far-right regime is in a vicious cycle of requesting support from the Trump-Musk regime and ‘pardoning violent people’
The Yoon Seok-yeol far-right regime has fallen into a vicious cycle of ‘pardoning violent people’ by requesting support from the Trump-Musk regime.
As soon as the Trump regime took power again, it vowed to pardon those indicted for the January 6th storming of the US Capitol four years ago, and the Yoon Seok-yeol regime appealed to the American far-right with a slogan similar to Trump’s slogan from four years ago: ‘Stop the Steal.’
While President Yoon was impeached and suspended from office for violating the Constitution for ‘protecting the free Korean regime,’ he instructed his supporters to 'Victory of Individual Liberal Democracy' and demanded support from the American far-right and the American flag.
Musk wrote on his own X Eastern European X News account, ‘Visegrad24’, on a post about Korea on the 6th, “Wild times in Korea! (Korea is in chaos!) What is actually the crux of the issue?” and revealed his attempt to intervene in the sense of “the issue is the impeachment opposition party due to election fraud?”
On December 8, right after martial law, Lee Jae-myung told the Wall Street Journal, “People call me the Trump of Korea,” and “I am a realist,” expressing his willingness to “negotiate” as a pro-Trump figure.
‘Visegrad24’, a liberal media outlet in Eastern Europe, stated, “The Korean Public Prosecutor’s Office has decided to hand over the execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon to the police, and support for President Yoon is growing,” revealing that the impeachment has become untenable. The attached video only shows a rally of supporters of ‘opposing the impeachment of President Yoon’, and focuses on pickets written in English by Koreans who were the slogans of Trump’s Capitol invasion, ‘Stop the Steal’.
Korean media outlets reported Musk’s ‘support for the far right’ in Europe as ‘checking the left’.
The New York Times reported on the 4th under the title <How ‘Stop the Steal’ Became a Protest Slogan in South Korea> that <Right-wing YouTubers Helped President Yoon Seok-yeol Get Elected. Now That He Has Been Impeached, They Are Rallying His Supporters with Conspiracy Theories>.
The Washington Post reported on the 5th that "President Yoon's supporters waved the American flag, sang the American national anthem, and chanted 'Stop the Steal,'" repeating the slogan that Trump supporters used when storming the Capitol after raising suspicions of election fraud following their defeat in the 2021 US presidential election.
The British daily Guardian reported on the 3rd that "the combination of the Taegeukgi and the American flag may seem confusing to outsiders, but for President Yoon's supporters, the United States means more than just an ally," and that "the American flag is a symbol of a broader cultural and spiritual order that they (Yoon Seok-yeol supporters) see as currently under threat." Another New York Times article, <How Fear and Conspiracy Theories Fueled South Korea's Political Crisis>, stated that "If 'MAGA (Make America Great Again)' is behind Trump, then President Yoon has the 'Taegeukgi Army.'" The attack, carried out by a mob of Trump supporters after Trump gave a speech outside the White House four years ago, brought political violence to the hallways of Congress and involved nine deaths among police and rioters.
After his reelection, Trump told Time magazine, “We will look at each individual case, and we will deal with it very quickly, and it will start within the first hour of my presidency,” adding, “The vast majority should not be in jail, and they have suffered greatly.”
The Washington Post reported in an article that “Just as Trump claimed that the 2020 election was rigged and that there were ‘enemies within,’ President Yoon has also deployed martial law troops to the National Election Commission, claiming that the opposition party is ‘anti-state.’”
The New York Times reported that “If President-elect Trump has backed the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, President-elect Yoon has the ‘Taegeukgi Unit,’” which is comprised of “mostly older, church-going South Koreans who enliven the rallies with patriotic songs, waving South Korean and American flags in support of their country’s alliance with Washington, and fierce attacks on South Korea’s left-wing politicians who fear they will hand the country over to China and North Korea.”
The Times continued that “all 12 recent pro-Yoon rally participants interviewed for this story were staunch believers in conspiracy theories and said right-wing YouTubers were their main or only source of news.”
The Justice Department has charged more than 1,500 people with crimes related to the Capitol riots in the years since, with nearly 600 facing felony charges of assault or obstruction of law enforcement. Now, Trump’s followers in prison are counting down the days until they receive the pardons Trump promised.
The New York Times reported that “For more than two years, relatives of those charged with terrorism and supporters of the former president have gathered on the sidewalk outside the Washington, D.C., prison for a nightly vigil called ‘Freedom Corner,’ viewing January 6 as a catalyst for unjust government oppression rather than an attack on democracy,” and that “Trump is now expected to turn the latter narrative into policy as soon as he takes office.”
Elon Musk, who began publicly supporting far-right parties in Europe under the Trump-Musk regime, began his ‘support’ on January 4 by posting a scene in front of the presidential residence with signs reading “Martial law legal! Impeachment invalid!” and “Stop the Steal” on his social media X, saying “Wow.” On the 4th, Musk wrote on another account, “3 days after the execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon,” “Wow, there are so many police officers.”
On December 4th, Musk shared a post titled, “The Korean National Assembly unanimously passes a resolution to lift martial law,” and wrote, “Wow,” and “This (martial law) is shocking.”
On the 5th, Musk said, “Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right Reform UK Party, should step down as party leader,” and “The Reform UK Party needs a new leader. "Faraji is not qualified to do that," he wrote to X.
On December 16, Musk met with Farage, the leader of the UK Reform Party, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago villa, and announced that he was considering donating up to $100 million (150 billion won) to the UK Reform Party.
Earlier, Musk demanded the release of imprisoned British far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
Faraji, the leader of the UK Reform Party, did not agree with this, saying, "Musk is a great person, but I cannot agree with this part," and rather expressed his disagreement that Robinson is not the person needed for UK reform.
Musk immediately expressed his desire to "expel Tommy Robinson." Robinson, whose release Musk demanded, is the founder of the far-right anti-Islamic hardline group 'England Defence League (EDL)', and is currently serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court in October of last year.
On the 29th of last month, Musk told the German newspaper Die Welt The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is the last spark of hope and the only way to save Germany is through that party. Musk took to social media X the next day to call German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a Social Democrat, an “anti-democratic tyrant.”
Former Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gornell, who was seriously injured when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, published an op-ed in response to the incident in the New York Times on the 5th.
Gornell was a former Capitol Police sergeant and co-authored with Susan Shapiro of “American Shield: The Immigrant Boss Who Defended Democracy.”
The op-ed is as follows:
<For those who have not experienced violence, January 6, 2021 may seem like a thing of the past, but for me, it is not.
I keep thinking back to those five terrifying hours on that cold Wednesday afternoon, trying to protect elected officials and staffers inside the Capitol building regardless of political ideology, but without firing a gun. No.
As a result of my efforts to do my duty as a Capitol Police sergeant, I was beaten and beaten all over my body with multiple weapons by an angry mob, and ended up covered in my own blood. I was bruised in my hands, feet, and shoulders.
I thought I was going to die and never get home to see my wife and young son.
For the past four years, it has been shocking to hear Donald Trump repeat his promise to pardon the insurrectionists on his first day in office.
In a speech last year, he said, “It would be my great honor to pardon the peaceful protesters, or as I often call them, the hostages.”
But all of us who were there and everyone watching on TV know that the people who stormed the Capitol were not peaceful protesters. Pardoning them would be a catastrophic mistake, and it could mean that some 800 convicted criminals could be back on the streets. It also puts me at risk because I continued to testify in court and provide victim statements at the trials of dozens of rioters who assaulted me and my fellow officers.
I was one of the lucky ones that day. Nine people died in the riots. Two protesters suffered life-threatening medical conditions, one rioter overdosed on drugs during the commotion, and another was shot and killed by police officers as he entered the House chamber.
One of my colleagues, Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, suffered two strokes from the trauma of fighting off several protesters who sprayed him with chemical irritants, and he ultimately did not survive.
Four other Washington, D.C. police officers who were injured in the riots later committed suicide. (Omitted)
I don’t blame all Trump supporters (some of my relatives support Trump), but
I abhor what MAGA extremism did to me and my team on January 6. I am outraged by the collective amnesia and continued glorification of the brutality of right-wing politicians who refuse to hold Trump accountable.
I can’t stand Republicans describing themselves as the “law and order” party.>
See <US Lee Jae-myung Approaches ‘Yoon Seok-yeol Impeachment’ After Trump’s Inauguration, December 11, 2024>