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The Trump Coup Attempt That Wasn’t
Front Page Magazine ^ | Fri Jan 8, 2021 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 01/08/2021 9:24:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Leftists and weak-kneed Republicans were quick to accuse President Donald Trump of attempting to overthrow the democratic process on January 6 as individuals bearing Trump campaign flags and paraphernalia ran amok in the United States Capitol while lawmakers were attempting to officially certify the results of the November 6 election.

The election –don’t forget—that the Democrats stole with the connivance of those same Republicans.

The disorder in the Capitol complex, during which an apparently unarmed Trump supporter, 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, was shot to death by police, didn’t end the certification process, but merely delayed an official declaration a few hours. The barely sentient former Vice President Joe Biden, a left-winger now held hostage by even more radical elements of his anti-American party, hobbled across the finish line as he was pronounced president-elect early in the morning January 7 after lawmakers rejected a series of Republican objections to states’ presidential electors. Support for the objections collapsed after an angry mob took over the premises, smashing windows, breaking down doors, and occupying lawmakers’ offices.

Rogue lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, a Republican congressman from Illinois, led the charge against Trump, not the rioters, labeling the freelance storming of the Capitol building then in progress “a coup attempt,” in a tweet time-stamped 2:24 p.m.

Former Michigan Congressman Justin Amash, who fled the Republican Party under pressure, tweeted “Donald Trump needs to resign or be removed from office. America has endured enough.”

RINO Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor, said President Trump has been “very disappointing” since his November election loss and that he will be “judged harshly by history.”

Kooky, noxious, perpetually wrong about everything journalist-turned-novelist David Frum tweeted, “Impeach. Remove. Indict. Incarcerate. Now.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; adamkinzinger; amash; ashlibabitt; capitol; coup; davidfrum; frum; haley; impeach; justinamash; kag; kinzinger; maga; potus; trump
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1 posted on 01/08/2021 9:24:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course there was no takeover plan this is a total set up lie.


2 posted on 01/08/2021 9:26:29 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Face it. There no longer exists a reasonable consensus of values at the core of American culture. The Biden Administration will always have the stench of illegitimacy. The country itself is so divided it is not governable. Think about it. What decent American would trust Biden, his administration or their Democrat neighbors. Just the way it is.


3 posted on 01/08/2021 9:30:06 PM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

Before. 12 hours to debate objections

After Trump is evil ! He personally stormed the capital ! Rubber stamp Biden. 93-7. ! Get those evil objectors like Hawley !!!

Noooooo. That wasn’t a setup. Nooooooo. Not at all


4 posted on 01/08/2021 9:35:38 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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Anyone else have the feeling this Leftwing zeppelin is about to crash?


5 posted on 01/08/2021 9:45:40 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

It reminds me of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union in 1991, when they arrested Gorby.

Where’s our Yeltsin?


6 posted on 01/08/2021 9:48:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gene Eric

No way our president is going to let it end like this. No way in hell!


7 posted on 01/08/2021 9:50:10 PM PST by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death, cheating and taxes.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

I have read the entire speech transcript, and I cannot find anywhere in the text where President Trump made a statement that could be construed as “inciting violence” or “inciting sedition,” etc.

The opportunistic, condescending, phony intellectual - Senator Ben Sasse, claims that President Trump told the crowd to “Go wild!” - Nowhere do I find any such command in that speech. If any here are able to find such a quote by Trump, please show me where!


8 posted on 01/08/2021 9:58:07 PM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Gene Eric

It was the Anti-Coup

/coup, coup, ga joob


9 posted on 01/08/2021 10:14:08 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Two wrongs don’t make a right as my mother used to warn. You don’t first steal an election and then impeach the real winner of the election for a made up insurrection. The Rats just want to change everyone’s focus from the stolen election to a contrived insurrection.


10 posted on 01/08/2021 10:18:07 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: JME_FAN

that Sasse guy is a twisted opportunist.


11 posted on 01/08/2021 10:19:40 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[RINO Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor, said President Trump has been “very disappointing” since his November election loss and that he will be “judged harshly by history.” ]


I don’t know about history, but Haley will be judged harshly by GOP primary voters. My guess is she’ll look at her numbers and not even bother to run.


12 posted on 01/08/2021 10:27:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Haley personifies everything that is wrong with the republican party.


13 posted on 01/08/2021 10:36:25 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

After the russian collusion delusion and the daily lies told by the democrats and the lefty media all bets are off.

The democrats started CW II. What ever they get they deserve.


14 posted on 01/08/2021 10:38:56 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: jospehm20

[Haley personifies everything that is wrong with the republican party.]


It’s just a party - a convenient banner for individual ambition. It worked for Trump because his program was what right-wing voters had been asking for since anyone bothered to ask. Haley is a woman with no constituency. She will fail because GOP voters don’t want someone who represents someone else at their expense. Nothing wrong with the GOP, any more than there’s anything wrong with the NRA. The GOP isn’t a thing in itself - it’s just a vehicle, a brand name.


15 posted on 01/08/2021 10:43:54 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Salamander

LOL... I know that tune.


16 posted on 01/08/2021 10:57:10 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To all,

please consider bookmarking the site this article is from, https://www.frontpagemag.com/

A bastion of sanity in a world gone mad


17 posted on 01/08/2021 11:18:39 PM PST by Mount Athos
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They call it “Insurrection” ??? A ‘Coup Attempt” ?????

When the 250000 unarmed Trump Supporters stood around outside, and stayed for a few hours, and then went home ?

If it was an ‘Insurrection’ it would still be occupied by 1000s still. Sorry, No armed mob - a protest protected by THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

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“Terrorism’ shrieked the demlefty media ...
A few dozen kranks who look to include anarchis/antifa-types easily break into the Capitol Building (during highest security of that place EVER - HOW ? Actually LET IN by the DC POLICE - Incredible NEGLIGENCE or Intentionally Contrived).

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“Violence” ??? “Riot” ???

Some few Pushing some barricades ? So many just Standing around on the steps of the Capitol, which they just walked upto ??? ( labeled “stormed” by demlefty media)


The demleft media glorified the antifa/anarchists doing previously continuous arson/looting/assaults/rioting, and these propagandists labels this recent Expression of THE PEOPLES FREE SPEECH as somehow being THE SAME as what that previous disgracefully allowed behavior of the lefts brownshirts ...

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Sane America should have all the proof they need about who is working against THE PEOPLE - propagandists labeling themselves ‘journalists’ - TOOLS working against America.

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18 posted on 01/08/2021 11:46:42 PM PST by elbook
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To: Truthoverpower

I think they are able to spin stuff to push their narrative more than a set up.


19 posted on 01/09/2021 12:04:06 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (https://gab.com/Greekstyle1)
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To: Williams

We’re witnessing the biggest big lie. They’re spitting blood after four years of truth telling by Trump such as “fake news” or “really nasty people in DC”.
Nothing worked to diminish the man. So they planned an operation to turn his biggest rally into an antifa led break in/sit in that allowed every Trump hating Republican to denounce the wounded President. I’m not sure he will overcome this biggest big lie.


20 posted on 01/09/2021 2:09:08 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forests!)
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