Congressional Democrats are engaged in a series of secret hearings as part of an impeachment-style process, attempting to manufacture the political conditions for an actual impeachment and potential election-year removal of a sitting president.
Those who object to calling this a coup might imagine that coups must involve people in uniforms hauling bedraggled deposed politicians from their offices, tanks in the streets, perfunctory announcements read by nervous journalists, and so forth, all the panoply of coups in the developing world. But coups can take other forms, and the term is appropriate whenever entrenched interests work actively against the will of the people and Constitutional processes to overthrow a government.
We have seen this coup process unfolding since even before President Trump took office. The first stage was during the 2016 election, when the plotters such as former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tried to ease the installation of Hillary Clinton as president by ensuring she paid no price, political or otherwise, for her sketchy dealings as secretary of state, and how she kept everything secret through the use of her illegal home-brew email server. They were also working hard to undermine Trump’s campaign through an unprecedented campaign of domestic and international spying, abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, collecting information on Trump and his associates and circulating the discredited, Clinton-funded Steele dossier.
This stage failed spectacularly, in part through blunders from the plotters themselves, most noteworthy being James Comey reopening and then closing the Clinton “matter” in the week before the election. That was back when the Democrats wanted Comey’s scalp; his elevation to sainthood would come later. (RELATED: Gorka: My Exclusive Interview With President Donald Trump)
The second stage of the plot took place during the transition, when Obama administration officials engaged the “insurance policy” mentioned by anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok, unmasking the names of American citizens in NSA databases, spreading unverified, raw information from intelligence sources around the government, leaking the Steele dossier, embedding Obama/Clinton loyalists at high levels in the White House professional staff, and using transition interviews to continue to collect information with a view towards setting up President elect Trump and others in entrapment schemes. This was how they took out Michael Flynn for example.
The third stage took place in the first months of the Trump administration, when you saw various nutty schemes like former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe opening a counter-intelligence operation aimed at the president; seeking to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office (where former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offered to wear a wire to collect information on the president, a bizarre act of insubordination); and most seriously James Comey illicitly engineering conditions for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president.
This set up the fourth stage, the Mueller investigation, a two-year witch hunt costing millions of dollars that ultimately failed in its mission to make the case that President Trump “colluded” with Russia during the 2016 election and obstructed justice in the investigation of the crimes that did not exist. The Mueller period spawned countless “bombshell” headlines that turned out to be baseless, saw journalists win major awards for reporting that turned out to be flawed, and generally served to distract and hobble the Trump administration in its day to day duties. In the end the Mueller investigation was a spectacular failure on the part of the coup plotters, and Mueller himself in his Congressional testimony did not come across as the steely-eyed avenger the left had hoped for, but a befuddled man past his prime with a poor grasp of the facts of the case.
Any reasonable person might have thought that this would be the end of the plots to remove the president, but we are not dealing with reasonable people. Now we have the fifth stage of the coup, in which Democrats, led by Adam Schiff of California, have perverted and weaponized the whistle-blower process to create a supposed scandal to justify an unprecedented impeachment-style proceeding that is purposefully being kept secret from the American people. Anti-Trump operatives inside the government have been enlisted to work with Democratic Congressional staff to manufacture rationales for this circus, based on a harmless July 25, 2019 conversation between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
This stage has produced tremendous impeachment buzz – with the cooperation of wiling media outlets such as CNN, whose president Jeff Zucker has decided that impeachment is the story regardless of the facts. And it is likely that Democrats will keep this process going well into next year, using secret testimony from prepared “witnesses” and badgering administration officials at every turn.
It’s not so much a matter of trust than reliability. They can trust the US voter to made a decision based on their life situation now vis a vis what it was before Trump, and that wouldn’t be good for them. They can’t rely on them to believe the “hope and change” hype again after they were knee-capped by that garbage in 2008. Adding to the unreliability is the waning trust in the liberal media propaganda machine. There have simply been too many lies revealed for any but the most mentally incapacitated liberal zealot to believe them out of hand.
They have very good reason to worry, but they also risk destroying themselves if their coup fails because they will be exposed for what they have become: anti-Constitutional seditionists that hate a government that allows the people to decide who the President should be. They’ve effectively figured out how to control the process among Democrats, but not quite how to do it across the nation.
It’s not much of a coup that leaves the same party in power when it’s finished.
@It’s not much of: It’s a failed coup. If a bank robber gets caught robbing a bank and the money is still left in the safe, he’s still a bank robber.
@Deplorable Me:
If Trump is impeached and removed, is it still a failed coup, or does it become a successful “coup” that somehow left almost all of the same people in power?
Trump’s cult members don’t even know the definition of the word coup. Their leader corrupts the meaning of words to his own end, just like he corrupts everything else.
It’s the man in the White House who is openly breaking laws, obstructing justice, and defying the constitutional powers and authority of Congress. Congress has done nothing unlawful, and is doing nothing that isn’t called for.
@Iftrumpis: If Trump is removed but the rest of his administration left in place, it would be a successful, though poorly conceived, coup.
@Greg: Under oath, Mueller clearly and unambiguously stated that there was no collusion, Trump committed no crimes and Trump committed no obstruction. This latest crybaby temper tantrum merely proves how desperately bereft of any evidence of any crimes you Democrats are.
A coup is an overthrow of an existing government. That is exactly what Democrats are trying to do. They lost an election they thought they had rigged well enough to win with a corrupt, lying, incompetent drunk and not only have to cover their tracks but cannot risk facing Trump again in a straight-up election.
Make no mistake, there will be repercussions to this attempted coup. There is already a letter in the House to censure Schiff for his lie-laden rendition of Trump’s phone call. Every Democrat participating in trying to impeach Trump on what they have managed to collect up against him should be run out of public service for massive abuses of power and taxpayer assets. Trying to exact the greatest penalty possible on the highest office in the land based on absolutely NO evidence is despicable and Democrats will forever, just as with slavery and racism, be stained by this illegal and unconstitutional maneuver.
No, that IS NOT what he said. His testimony was entirely in line with the investigative report, which didn’t say that either.
If you want to know what it actually said, read the conclusions.
There will most certainly be repercussions that result from the impeachment process and the various pending court cases.
@Greg: Actually the most important repercussion will likely be Dems will lose the house when Trump is reelected. There is a lot of anger out there against Dems. Get out of you bubble and ask around.
@Greg:
It IS what he said and you’d best accept it because everyone here KNOWS that’s what he said. You need to peddle your Democrat lies among some of your ignorant liberal buddies that are anxious to believe any lie that reinforces their life’s stupid decisions.
@Randy: Pelosi says she’ll call no impeachment vote. A definite admission they have NO grounds for impeachment. Gutless and despicable.
@Greg: This is not a traditional third-world coup which is characterized by military forces sweeping into the halls of power to swiftly arrest the former leader, but instead it represents something far more akin to a legal drama laced with espionage.
It was, in effect, a soft coup.
To put it plainly, if elements of state security services pushed to oust a leader in any other country, we would readily define that as a coup, thats exactly what is going on here. As James Clapper said it was at the request of BHO.
The DNC media deflects the investigation of the investigation telling you its all about Biden and his drug addled spawn. Biden will be a tiny footnote in history as corrupt politician and family.
The larger story will be how the extinct Democrat Party refused to accept a duly elected President then proceeded to undermine and try to unseat him.
@kitt:
And they said before Trump was elected, this would be a bad thing. They really thought they had that election rigged well.
the word coup is tossed around with no concept of what it means- a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. the demorats have no power to enact a coup-dummies have no idea of language and its use, but when one was a bar fly in her college days-verbalization was limited.
@MOS # 8541: A coup doesn’t have to be violent. It merely has to wrest power from the legitimate authorities.