Donald Trump's hands are all over the coup attempt
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(CNN)With each passing day, it seems, new revelations come to light that suggest how intimately involved then-President Donald Trump and his advisers were in the coup attempt leading up to the events of January 6, 2021.
The latest bombshell came Thursday night when CNN reported that Trump lawyer and confidant Rudy Giuliani, as well as other Trump campaign aides, spearheaded the efforts to gather alternate electors in seven swing states in an attempt to overturn Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. As CNN's Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen and Dan Merica write: "Giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts-and-bolts of the process on a state-by-state level, the sources told CNN. One source said there were multiple planning calls between Trump campaign officials and GOP state operatives, and that Giuliani participated in at least one call.
The source also said the Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet on December 14, 2020, and circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the National Archives." The goal of these efforts? To have Vice President Mike Pence declare a dispute about which electors to seat from those seven key states, throwing the matter to the House where a Republican majority of state delegations would vote to recognize the pro-Trump electors rather than the rightful electors. Read More
That plot was laid out in a two-page memo by John Eastman, a conservative lawyer working for Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election. As CNN wrote of the Eastman memo late last year: "The Eastman memo laid out a six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election for Trump, which included throwing out the results in seven states because they allegedly had competing electors. In fact, no state had actually put forward an alternate slate of electors -- there were merely Trump allies claiming without any authority to be electors." As all of that was going on, Trump himself was actively pressuring Pence to throw the election back to the House despite there being no constitutional backing for such a move. On January 5, just hours before the Electoral College certification, Trump and Pence met at the White House.
Here's how CNN described that meeting: "Pence came under intense pressure from Trump to toss out the election results during a meeting that lasted hours in the Oval Office. The vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, was banned by Trump from entering the West Wing, the source said, as the President repeatedly warned with 'thinly veiled threats' to Pence that he would suffer major political consequences if he refused to cooperate." The picture of all this reporting makes clear: Publicly and privately, Trump and those close to him were actively working to not only undermine public confidence in the 2020 election, but also to put in motion a plan to overturn a free and fair election. It's damning stuff. And, if the past few months have taught us anything, it's the more of this picture we see, the worse things look for Trump. His role in the scatter-shot, legally suspect effort only seems to grow larger with each passing week.
While the report from the January 6 House select committee will be the definitive word on all of this, we can already see just how big a role Trump and those closest to him played in the attempted coup. What's even scarier than a sitting president actively trying to bend laws for his own personal gain? The fact that he is the current frontrunner to be the Republican Party's nominee in 2024.
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The facts of the coup attempt will make Watergate look like childs play. It will all be shown on national tv when the Jan 6 committee goes public before too long.
Will the independents, moderates and traditional Republicans be ready to accept the truth ?
Do "traditional Republicans" still exist?
Except the average American doesn't give a shit about this overblown protest gone bad
the below average intelligence american doesn't give a shit about the attempted coup...
A coup??
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Why is coup trending?
On January 6, 2021, interest in the word coup spiked—corresponding with a 962% increase in search interest on Dictionary.com—after a mob of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building on the day Congress was set to certify the electoral vote count to confirm Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Some journalists, political analysts, and politicians used the word coup to describe the events that occurred at the nation’s capitol.
The word coup , in this context, is short for coup d’état , which literally means “stroke of state” in French. Due to its French origin, the final p is not pronounced, making the word sound identical to the word coo .
Coup vs. sedition vs. insurrection
Coup Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The term coup is in popular usage to describe the Trump attempt to stay in power. Call it slang if it pleases you.
The CDP defines coups d'état as organized efforts to effect sudden and irregular (e.g., illegal or extra-legal)
removal of the incumbent executive authority of a national government, or to displace the authority of the highest
levels of one or more branches of government.
CDP v.2.0.2 Codebook.pdf
Five Trump stories on the main page.
But no one is obsessed.
Better to whine than to try and defend him I suppose.
What is different than the ten a day seeds about Biden....
hat is different than the ten a day seeds about Biden.
Who is the President and who has been a private citizen for a year?
You all said the same shit when he was president. Complained of all the seeds about him.
Really strange that you all cannot see that you do the same thing....
Clearly. Will be interested to see if any of this sticks to Trump. He does have a remarkable ability to slither out of trouble of his own making.
He doesn't have the Senate as his wingman this time. All he can do, is exactly what he is doing, stall...stall...stall, and hope republicans take back all of Congress to cancel the investigation.
I will be watching. Not gonna predict anything.
if they don't finish up by 11/22, this congress will have done all the legwork for the DOJ...
It is the dirty money, the fraud of the dirty money and the origins of the dirty money that DJT fears the most. This so called 'insurrection' was nothing more than a ploy to keep his status and assure these revelations never see the light of day. There are also his actions at Helsinki which could indicate treasonous actions with a foreign power. These are but two items which must never become investigated and him having to explain under oath the details.
I will be watching as well, but I won't be watching CNN.
Every time...
Sometimes by throwing other people under the bus.
That is commonplace with snakes, you know forked tongue and all.
I don't see how people are not in jail for sending false records to the national archives.
All this shit these people pull and they are walking free.
If us regular Joe's did some of these things we would be thrown under the jail.
'The man who dwells in Mar-a-Lago may withstand all scrutiny unless he is forced too publicly testify under oath. This is something he cannot do. He just can't.