The United States Military would never have backed a coup, the people who attacked the capitol were basically a mixture of conspiracy theorist crazies who had no chance of success.
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It wouldn't have taken the military. The plan was to have Repub legislatures overturn the results of the elections for Biden in their states and send their own slates of electors to Washington.That would have created a Constitutional crisis and massive court challenges, but Trump might have kept the White House. The military would have stood aside and the let the civilians battle it out.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...acting-attorney-general-georgia-election.html
THIS!
no chance of preventing the certification of the election?
I think you are wrong.
And THIS!
Crazy Chainsaw If you had bothered to watch the video before posting, you might have gleaned that the coup would have been political - the military were not even mentioned, and would not have been involved, or even needed.
There is a reason why there were all those phone calls from Giuliani and Trump to election officials in Georgia and Arizona, asking them to do certain things such as
"find 11,800 votes" and
"fix the problem". All of that was predicated on getting the DoJ announce that they were investigating serious electoral fraud issues.
There is a reason why Jeffrey Clark, a senior official, met personally with Trump behind his superior's backs, and in return for an offer of making him the AG, Clark drafted a letter outlining DoJ allegations of election fraud, but his superiors refused to sign it, so it never saw the light of day until now. I shudder to think what might have happened if Rosen could have been convinced to sign it.
There is a reason why Trump fired CISA Director Krebs and caused Bill Barr and US Attorney Pak to resign
There is a reason why Trump pressured Acting AG Rosen to pursue meritless election fraud claims and baseless lawsuits in a White House meeting.
There is a reason why Trump used his WH PA and her official WH email account to send DOJ officials materials alleging election fraud in Michigan, and a draft Supreme Court complaint.
There is a reason why WH CoS Mark Meadows pressure Acting AG Rosen to authorize DOJ investigations into allegations of election fraud in multiple states, and requested that he assign Clark to investigate the Georgia election fraud allegations.
NONE of those reasons involves the military. All of this, if successful, would have given Trump and his devoted Repugnicans in both houses the necessary cover to support those State political entities loyal to Trump (especially in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan) to rule their individual elections fraudulent, and to recall their Electoral College electors and replace them with electors that would cast their votes for Trump. That would have "legitimately" put Der Trumpenführer back into office without a shot being fired.
America dodged a bullet!!
Some of us in this forum could see what he was up to as long ago as 2018. We said so at that time and were roundly mocked by the usual suspects. As it turns out, he was trying to do exactly what we said he was trying to do.