Call It Trump's Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-coup-media_n_64505256e4b039ec4e867f2d

Donald Trump once famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters.

What he didn’t mention was how quickly the news media would pretend like it never even happened.

Instead, we’d focus on the latest juicy tidbits of who was in and who was out among the Mar-a-Lago crowd. We’d write features about how his old crew had migrated to South Florida with him and how the state itself had become “Trump-ified” in his image. And we’d scramble over each other for “scoops,” such as who is about to endorse him, or when and where his next rally would be, with the hope of winning an invitation aboard his private jetliner.

How do I know this?

Because we’re doing it right now. Donald Trump is the only president who used the threat of violence and then actual violence in an attempt to remain in power — the very definition of a coup. It was the singular unique act of his tenure, truly historic. In 232 years of elections, no other president had done anything remotely close to what Trump did.

Failing to mention Jan. 6 in a story about Trump is akin to writing about Neil Armstrong without mentioning the moon landing or about Jeffrey Dahmer without bringing up cannibalism.

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[Zambero]

1. Never recall any writers doing "Parole Candidate Charles Manson" stories

"Presidential Candidate Donald Trump" implies forgiveness and forgetfulness. Perhaps the second one is the worst of the two.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. The coup attempt leader is more popular than the man leading a booming economy and bringing

reason, logic, ethics and competency back to government, so say media…so it must be!

Media and corporations controlling all don’t hate competency, but the competency and leadership has to be equated to the only other political party there is that prefers chaos and coups.

[erronis]

3. Trump constantly promoted violence against other people. He didn't want to dirty his little hands,

but he really stoked the fires on many occasions - gleefully watching from a distance as assaults happened.

It's scary how easy it is to provoke/nudge some people into doing things that they wouldn't, in their rational minds, ever contemplate. Ah, I see the error in this statement - I included "rational".

[Goonch]

4. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trump wanted the metal detectors shut down so his terrorists could bring in weapons.

[Beartracks]

6. knr

"We treat political corruption as unequivocally bad, as we do murder and other violent crimes. We don’t waste time quoting experts telling us that bribery and homicide are wrong. We proceed from the premise that they are. Yet when it comes to Trump, we impose the 'neutral observer' standard to an actual attempt to end our democracy?"

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