The part where they wanted to shut down Fox and the remaining conservative media? At that point, it sounds like they were pretty well boned anyway. Their problem at that point wasn’t the press so much as that pretty much all of them had to worry about getting shot. That meeting sounds like the bunker scene in “Downfall”, except with the staffers having the meltdown instead of the boss.
Actually, I could very easily see Barry greenlighting something like this, off the record, of course, giving Jacinda and Dennis and the gang the wink and the nod that he’s with them all the way on their plan, right on, comrades, and then bailing out if it goes bad, leaving the plotters in front of the speeding bus. I could even imagine him feeding Fox the “putsch” story, or feeding it to somebody to feed to Fox, while he’s up in the residence “thinking” about the arrest orders. I mean, when he’s not packing and planning his flight out.
Love your reply. I can even see the president giving the interview to 60 Minutes a decade later, from the oceanside patio of his mansion and compound in that tropical nation.