It was a coup attempt. There’s no way to sugarcoat it.
So both sides would have us believe.
It was a successful coup.
Senile Joe told us ahead of time he had the best fraud machine ever and he didn’t need people to vote for him.
It was a coup attempt.
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Unintentionally misleading? To refer to what happened as only an “attempt” implies that it didn’t actually happen, when in fact it did happen.