CNN NOW DESCRIBING 1/6 AS "ATTEMPTED COUP"

[orangecrush]

The full picture of Trump’s attempted coup is only starting to emerge


President Donald Trump – back in the final days of his presidency – didn’t exactly make a secret of his effort to overturn the election he’d just lost and so it’s very easy to get tired of thinking about it, now that he’s out of office and his official powers have been clipped.

But in addition to the lies he was spreading all along, we continue to learn new and disturbing details about his obstinate and pernicious efforts to poison the system from within, which included an “Apprentice”-style showdown between two top Justice Department officials at the White House and threats of resignation.

Timeline: What Georgia prosecutors are looking at as they investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the election

Woven together, they show that Trump’s assault on democracy, which looks more and more like an attempted coup, was even more reckless and insistent than previously thought.

The recent news includes these items:

Trump pressured acting DOJ officials like acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 to “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” according to the notes of acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue’s notes, shared with House investigators.

A day later, on December 28, at least one acting DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, who was in charge of the civil division, apparently bought into Trump’s lies, or wanted to assuage him, and drafted a letter suggesting there were election irregularities in the election (there weren’t), but it was rebuffed by other top acting officials.
Officials like Rosen’s chief of staff Patrick Hovakimian drafted letters of resignation in case his boss was pushed out in favor of Clark.
CNN’s Marshall Cohen, Jason Morris, Christopher Hickey and Will Mullery have put together an in-depth timeline of Trump’s efforts to corrupt the US government and the Georgia government. It is exhaustive and shocking.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/what-matters-trump-doj-coup/index.html


The dam is breaking.

I hope the consequences take down all who bought into this treason.

[madaboutharry]

1. It has been the chyron for a couple of days now.

Call it by its name. It was an attempted coup and the list of co-conspirators is long.

[orangecrush]

3. Nancy and House committee

Have turned on the light, and the cockroaches are running.

[Justice matters.]

31. I'd add "an attempted coup culminating in a violent act of domestic terrorism that killed five"

instigated by a lying domestic terrorist's refusal to accept defeat in order to try to avoid prison for his crimes" but that's probably too long a headline...

[marble falls]

2. It's tipping!

[orangecrush]

4. A big question for me

Is once all the information is gathered, how to you proceed to deal with such widespread rot and corruption?

[flying_wahini]

5. Especially since we KNOW these twerps aren't going to honor a subpoena, right?

When they are cuffed and arrested Magats will lose their shit, whatever is left of it.

[MyOwnPeace]

34. Oh, trust me!

They have PLENTY of shit left - cesspools and sewers are like that.....

[marble falls]

6. Congress is doing that right now. They send their findings to the Justice Department ...

... and other entities, like SDNY or the Manhattan DA or the other grand juries actively looking to indict him have access to the evidence and charges.

He's going down, the skids are greased.

[lagomorph777]

7. Congratulations from Captain Obvious.

Glad they can see what's right in front of their noses.

[Nexus2]

9. It came faster than it took them most to call Trump's lies lies. [nt]

[Blues Heron]

8. time to lock up the coup plotters!

lock them up!

[wyn borkins]

10. As I've Stated Previously

I would like to see orange-on-orange in the morning...and before Halloween (!)

[dalton99a]

11. "Leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen"

[orangecrush]

17. Thank you Dalton!

[KPN]

23. Thanks for the reminder! America needs these reality checks right now.

[2naSalit]

12. 'Bout time.

[UTUSN]

13. Thing is now he has years to get professional planning for the next time

[orangecrush]

16. They did not succeed

And must be dealt with.

[UTUSN]

18. Yeah, before the professional planning makes it work.

[orangecrush]

19. And before

They can revise the reality.

[C_U_L8R]

14. A planned, organized and financed attempted coup.

and this conspiracy includes the cover-up.

These traitors should all receive a fitting punishment.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. McConnell, Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy, Scalise, etc. etc. etc.

Traitors.

[SergeStorms]

32. I'm not sure about McConnell.....

he never went "all in" for the orange colostomy bag, but the rest on that list.......oh yeah. Accessories to all of MF45's crimes, and all very worthy of their very own orange jump suits.

[ace3csusm]

35. ITs it me but i have not heard much from Jim Jordan lately ....

After that interview where he was asked if he spoke to TFG on 1/6 and it finally sinked in thats he's in trouble...

[peggysue2]

20. An attempted coup

During which the Republican Party and its House and Senate members were complicit. Not all but a large enough contingent to provide inside help and assistance in overturning the US government.

These are seditionists and they all belong in jail for a very long time!

Not to investigate and charge is an invitation to a redo.

Nancy Pelosi is the Boss. to her and our Democratic Reps, men and women who still believe in our democratic Republic. We owe them a lot.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. New evidence reveals TFG came a lot closer to pulling off a coup than any of us realized

Link to tweet

[AllaN01Bear]

38. really telling when he did the sig heil salute .( banned in germany, automatic goto jail card )

[KPN]

22. Yay! About time!

[monkeyman1]

24. call it like it is - attempted treason ! life in Prison or hanging! no in-between!!

[robertpaulsen]

44. Absolutely!

Life in prison at a minimum. Execution for the top plotters.

[malaise]

25. Slowly everyone is reaching where we reached

in January - the damn has broken

[orangecrush]

28. But it isn't over

They are regrouping, and in some cases, continuing the attack unhindered.



https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215706852

[malaise]

29. They will fail again

Lock them up!

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. About f'ing time!

Better late than never? I guess, but...

[Duppers]

33. Indeed!

Welcome back, btw.

[BobTheSubgenius]

50. Thank you!

[Takket]

27. good. media needs to stop referring to this as a "riot"

Once you are committing violent acts for the purpose of disrupting and overthrowing the duly elected government, you are not just a "riot" anymore. Now you are an insurrection and coup.

[orangecrush]

30. We were extremely lucky

Had the scum gut to reps, the outcome would have been far different.

[Grins]

36. Took 'em long enough.

Been saying it since 06 January.

[AllaN01Bear]

37. the tide is turning for lard lips .

[bucolic_frolic]

39. You allow facts and truth to lead the awakening

This is why you don't rush in 3 months ago and start charging people at the top of the pyramid. The shock value of 1/6 had a lot of the public blitzed. Now the pattern, the preponderance of the evidence, many corroborating story lines all converging on similar conclusions. This may be how we get through this. But we still have to balance voting rights that prevent other means of election theft.

[lindysalsagal]

40. How many of the attacker admitted that was their goal on the cameras that day?

It's all on film. They were putting tfg in the office with violence. They were bragging about it.

[llashram]

41. of course

they wanted to kill progressive leaders of our democracy. Execute them on live television. RW fascist attempted coup? YES!!!

[calimary]

42. Fair enough.

Sure looks like it, sounds like it, more so with every new police video being released from that day.

If it quacks like a duck...

[robertpaulsen]

43. Great progression. From ATTEMPTED COUP next needs to be TRUMP TREASON!

That means life in prison at a minimum.

[Prichards115]

45. No It wasnt a coup

Coups REQUIRE the support of the military and they didn't have it. Coups require precise timing and coordination, from Donny Dipshit, get fucking real. It was a mob of pissed off racist whites. Yes people were in danger, but there was absolutely ZERO chance the properly elected gov't was going to be overthrown! Whomever stated this on CNN is a goddamned moron is looking for shock value and ratings.

[mnhtnbb]

48. No, you are wrong.

Definition of coup d'état

: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup%20d'%C3%A9tat


The events of January 6th fit the dictionary definition of an attempted coup d'état.

[bluewater]

46. K&R

[MiroJarvis]

47. Good.

Hope the orange moron goes to jail over that.

[crickets]

49. Kudos to CNN for using 'coup' in the headline

and for the extensive internal links, particularly to the timeline of what went on in Georgia. Yikes. But I will quibble with their statement that, "it’s very easy to get tired of thinking about it." NO. No it is not. We are not tired at all of thinking about what happened and what needs to be done about it.

[JCMach1]

51. Been saying it since day 1

[JCMach1]

52. Only difference is I prefer the term: Trumphole.Putsch

[COL Mustard]

53. They're Right

That’s what it was.

[twodogsbarking]

54. A violent, deadly attempted coup.