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"Autopsy of a Dead Coup" by Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness ^ | February 17, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/18/2019 5:36:38 AM PST by Travis McGee

The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.

So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.

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In sum, the Left and the administrative state, in concert with the media, after failing to stop the Trump campaign, regrouped. They ginned up a media-induced public hysteria, with the residue of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s illegal opposition research, and manipulated it to put in place a special counsel, stocked with partisans.

Then, not thugs in sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties used their government agencies to seek to overturn the 2016 election, abort a presidency, and subvert the U.S. Constitution. And they did all that and more on the premise that they were our moral superiors and had uniquely divine rights to destroy a presidency that they loathed.

Shame on all these failed conspirators and their abettors, and may these immoral people finally earn a long deserved legal and moral reckoning.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; anncoulter; comey; coupdetat; deepstatecoup; keepdigging; mancrush; mccabe; notover; treason; vdh; victordavishanson
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This is the best essay on The Deep State Coup that I have seen.


1 posted on 02/18/2019 5:36:38 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee

I read the whole thing. Fantastic summary! Great post!

MAGA! :)


2 posted on 02/18/2019 5:47:50 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Travis McGee

This coup attempt must be dealt with one way or another. Im losing faith in the powers that be. At some point We the People must begin discussing what we are going to do and how we will make it stick.


3 posted on 02/18/2019 5:50:26 AM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m not so sure it’s dead yet.


4 posted on 02/18/2019 5:54:09 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Travis McGee
"..the greatest scandal in American political history..."

I think the unconstitutional usurpation of the Presidency by non-eligible Obama was an equivalently great scandal.

5 posted on 02/18/2019 6:00:12 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: Travis McGee

Great article.


6 posted on 02/18/2019 6:00:53 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Travis McGee

A “MUST-READ” POWERFUL ARTICLE written by the most brilliant political writer of our day that needs to be sent around the world and trumpeted because of its powerful declaration of TRUTH!

In an age that continually is crying for JUSTICE, clearly Hanson shows the one place today where it is needed the most - and most clearly being denied and obfuscated by the enemies of TRUTH.


7 posted on 02/18/2019 6:03:33 AM PST by Arlis
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To: Travis McGee

they thought they could pull off another Watergate presidential resignation


8 posted on 02/18/2019 6:05:30 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Travis McGee
to destroy a presidency that they loathed

It's gotta be more than that ... the Deep-Staters wouldn't go to all that trouble for someone they just disliked ...

I'm thinking they must have committed some covert crimes that we don't know about yet, thought Hillary would win so they would still have cover, and when Trump got in they realized they might actually be prosecuted by someone who wasn't on their side ...

This at least provides an M.O. for their extreme actions ... so now the question becomes, what crimes - serious enough for them to go to all these lengths - did they commit? What are they really hiding?


9 posted on 02/18/2019 6:06:12 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Travis McGee

A disbanded non existent FBI/CIA is better than a corrupt CIA/FBI.


10 posted on 02/18/2019 6:06:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

When Hillary Clinton tagged us as a “basket of deplorables” she meant it, it wasn’t a slip of the tongue. When Peter Stroyk detected a “stench” in Walmart, he really smelled it. When a politico reporter described people at a trump rally as “toothless garbage people”, regardless of his apology he really meant we weren’t smart enough to vote. Most importantly, when the FBI/DOJ deemed Donald Trump was not capable of being POTUS, they had every intention of removing him, still do..

This has nothing to do with DJT, it has everything to do with us, the smelly deplorables with bad teeth who aren’t smart enough to vote. UNTIL we rise up, defend OURSELVES and fight, they will continue to take away our rights.


11 posted on 02/18/2019 6:08:02 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Travis McGee
"Shame on all these failed conspirators and their abettors, and may these immoral people finally earn a long deserved legal and moral reckoning."

Sadly, until there is a march on Washington with torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers, we (myself included) are all "abettors," deluding ourselves that the same system that produced the subversives will ultimately bring them to justice.

12 posted on 02/18/2019 6:08:56 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Travis McGee

“sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties used their government agencies to seek to overturn the 2016 election, abort a presidency, and subvert the U.S. Constitution.”

That about covers it.


13 posted on 02/18/2019 6:08:57 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Travis McGee

Way too soon for an Autopsy, when they start Hanging the Treasonous Conspirators them we can talk Autopsy.


14 posted on 02/18/2019 6:11:10 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Travis McGee

Pronouncing it “dead” is premature.

You still have the Mueller probe active.

You still have Congress controlled by Democrats.

Abd there’s the probe of the New York Southern district into the Trump organization’s finances.


15 posted on 02/18/2019 6:12:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Travis McGee

I love the way this man writes. He is a true intellectual.


16 posted on 02/18/2019 6:13:34 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: central_va

Burn it down, fire everybody above Special Agent.


17 posted on 02/18/2019 6:13:49 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Not being a “constitutional scholar” like the turd I’m not sure, but just from my viewpoint their action appear to me to be treason


18 posted on 02/18/2019 6:15:51 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Travis McGee
We need to give counter intel back to the military and interstate crime mission back to the US Marshals. Get rid of the FBI altogether.

The CIA is tricky but I think DIA could do it.

19 posted on 02/18/2019 6:17:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: rktman
I'm not so sure it's dead yet

Nor am I. It's very disturbing that there are so many (including some Republicans) who are okay with this "end justifies the means" maneuver.

I've been thinking....what about Paul Ryan? He was Romney's VP choice, he threw the House majority on purpose, and so many problems such as wall funding and not addressing infrastructure needs and not striving to balance the budget are poison pills he left.

And what about some of the very bad choices President Trump made for the cabinet. (and still?) President Trump seems to be getting very bad counterproductive advice from a person or persons he puts total trust in. I'm wondering if the only person he can trust is Melania and the only spokespeople Sara Huckabee and Steve Miller.

Already the dems are striving to manipulate the nomination process. JMHO there are 'pubs who will try to stuff the convention, rig the primaries, and do the same.

It's not over. We must remember that the elite have nothing to lose, and a lot to gain, when it all comes tumbling down. They'll retreat to their safehavens, for decades if necessary, and come out more powerful and take control of even more wealth, property, and resources.

20 posted on 02/18/2019 6:17:26 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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