Fiona Hill said on Sunday that all ‘immigrants like me who came from war zones’ see the danger in events like 6 January capital Riot – but Trump’s former adviser is from the United Kingdom.
When asked whether the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, called the attack a coup, Hill said he should speak to immigrants from countries who have experienced similar incidents.
He told CBS News ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday morning, ‘Well, people are saying this because they have no personal experience with these kinds of events.
‘I can definitely tell you, as an immigrant, who came against the backdrop of the collapse of the United States in 1989. Berlin The wall and the backdrop of the end of the Cold War,’ Hill said, ‘I also know immigrants like myself who came from war zones, from places like the former Yugoslavia or Sri Lanka, who are being torn apart by civil wars. and struggle. Afghanistan, Syria‘You know, you name it.’
‘All the people I know who are immigrants are looking around and saying, ‘Can’t people see this?’ He continued.
‘We come from war-torn societies,’ Hill said. ‘All the hallmarks are here.’
‘So maybe, you know, Americans should talk to some of their neighbors who have come from elsewhere and who have come to the United States to flee this kind of incident and tell them what their personal experience was.’
Hill was born and raised in England and came to the US for graduate school in the early 1990s and earned his doctorate at Harvard in the late 1990s. She became a US citizen in 2002.
Since his birth in 1965, Hill’s home country has not experienced any war within its borders.
Britain-born Trump’s national security aide Fiona Hill said on Sunday that ‘immigrants like me who came from war zones’ see the threat of the January 6 attack written on the wall
She said the events were similar to those in the lead-up to coups in other war-torn countries, which she suggested came from there despite being born and raised in England.
She still insisted that Americans should take the events of January 6 as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the coup attempt, which she claims could take place in 2022 or 2024.
Hill’s remarks came on Sunday as she is promoting her new memoir There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century, which was released this month.
During his interview with CBS anchor Margaret Brennan, Hill noted that former Vice President Mike Pence contributed perspective to the day when he downplayed the attack where some rioters called out to beat him.
A Stop the Steel rally outside the US Capitol turned into chaos on January 6, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the building and smashed doors, sending lawmakers into lockdown.
The events eventually led to Trump’s second impeachment, which Hill says is justified because she says he helped stage a coup attempt.
Several analysts sought their assessment of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, Hill told The Daily Beast,
Assessing the attack in January, he said, “The president was trying to launch a coup.” ‘There was little chance of that happening, but there was a substantial chance that the former defense secretaries had to put out the letter, which was the final nail through that effort. He prevented the military from engaging in any coup attempt. But instead, Trump himself tried to instigate it, it could have turned into a complete coup if he had any of those key institutions.’
“Just because it failed or didn’t succeed doesn’t mean it wasn’t real,” he added at the time.
Hill was the National Intelligence Analyst for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council from 2006 to 2009 – under President George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
In April 2017, three months after Donald Trump became president, Hill was appointed deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on his National Security Council.
Hill was set to leave the White House in April 2019 to return to the Brookings Institute, but was convinced to stay until mid-July by then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, with whom he developed a close professional relationship. Was.
On July 15 — just 10 days before the infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call — Hill stepped down. He was replaced by Tim Morrison.
Hill became a key witness in the first impeachment against Trump. In October 2019 she appeared in response to a summons and testified for 10 hours in a closed-door statement before a congressional committee and was publicly questioned on November 21, 2019.
Republicans have repeatedly questioned the credibility of his testimony.
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