‘All of us make mistakes and it’s important to admit it’
A law professor at UCLA said the United States’ “only hope” is for its military to conduct a coup d’état against the Trump administration in order to stop it from becoming a Russian ally.
Peter Arenella tweeted on X over the weekend “at this point, my only hope for the US to avoid becoming an ally to Russia is a violent resistance by our military. Tragic to say that because the military are trained to avoid any politically motivated intervention.”
Arenella followed up by claiming Trump helped prevent such an occurrence by “firing all the Joint Chief of Staff military leaders and replacing them with [his own] military acolytes.”
He added that the country will “get what we deserve by giving Trump a second chance to destroy our democracy.”
After his remarks triggered a swift blowback, including a commenter who tagged new FBI Director Kash Patel, Arenella apparently realized how his original tweet was worded, and so offered an explanation and apology:
NOTE TO FEDERAL GOVT. AGENCIES 1] I do not advocate a violent military intervention to overthrow our Govt. Such action would only trigger a civil war that would cause further damage to our democracy. 2] I am a Quaker who believes violence is never a morally appropriate response unless done in self defense.
I did make a mistake in a post where I was speculating about the source of any violent response to our govt abandoning its promise to defend Ukraine. In that original post, I mistakenly framed the issue by using the words “my only hope.”
Earlier today Arenella tweeted he was “suspending” posts on X for “at least a week” due to his “terminal stupidity and laziness in not editing” the coup-related post.
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“I deserve criticism for that post written in anger and frustration,” Arenella wrote. “Obviously, I should never post anything in anger that does not reflect my considered judgment. Apparently, my mea culpa did not diminish the fury even though I sincerely regretted making a mistake.
“All I can say in response is that all of us make mistakes and its [sic] important to admit it so we don’t repeat it.”
Arenella offered similar qualified remarks following the first assassination attempt on Trump in July. He tweeted that democracy “was already hanging by a thread,” and now the “iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in defiance with our flag waving behind him will lead to his election and the loss of our democracy.”
He added “without any factual basis” that his “first instinct” upon hearing of the shooting was that Trump staged the whole thing.
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IMAGES: UCLA; Peter Arenella/X
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