so they have no choice but to push for an outcome that might yet hold some chance that they could prevail.
As to implementation of a Trump order of state of emergency, this is actually quite trivial. How many people know the true casus belli for US entry into WWI? Many point to an alleged communique between Germany & Mexico, wherein Germany pledged support for a Mexican attack from the south.
We know any information can be created out of whole cloth, along with electronic markers IDing the alleged 'source'. It would be quite trivial indeed for Trump to use as evidence a secret "agreement" between Hussein/Clinton (while SoS), China and Mexico under a similar arrangement. There's your evidence of treason.
Lots of talk about the DoD following orders. Whose orders? The lawfully elected Pres declaring a state of emergency as the country while under attack by treasonous deep state conspirators? Or, the deep state?
Like a gunfight, the name of the game is who gets the drop. With a Trumpian order, it would be over in an hour. The ringleaders arrested, MSM taken over, Google, FB & Twit under gov't control. That night, the news would be entirely how the nation was saved from a violent, foreign inspired plot.
Game. Set. Match. That's why the deep state is pursuing the public coup; it's their only chance since their crimes against humanity are so great. They are going to hang either way; going down the path of 'legal coup' conducted in public is their only possible out.