If This Story Is True, Then Joe Biden Was Deposed in a Coup

https://townhall.com ^ | 7/30/2024 | matt vespa

[bitt]

If this story is true, and it’s a big what if, then Joe Biden has been deposed in a coup that’s reminiscent of banana republics. The problem is the sourcing: the story appears to be written by Seymour Hersh. Hersh isn’t a fake news peddler, though his stories often rely on anonymous sources, so much cannot be verified. For those who don’t know, Hersh has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Mai Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. Hersh may have a liberal bias, but he’s not overall a conspiracy theorist, at least not in the vein of someone like Louise Mensch, a former member of the UK Parliament, who went totally off the deep end during the Russian collusion hoax.

Hersh’s pervasive use of anonymous sources has given many an editor heartburn. Still, this story also is grounded since Joe Biden was facing pressure from all angles to step aside following his disastrous June 27 debate. His polling began to crater, placing states like Virginia in play. Donors withheld their cash; Hill Democrats poured out, calling the president to step aside. The dam finally broke during the Republican National Convention. Still, Biden remained entrenched even though he was looking at a Jimmy Carter-style loss if he stayed. At this point, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries increased their campaign to nudge the president into quitting. Barack Obama was already working behind the scenes to force Biden to exit the race, which brings us to this piece of palace intrigue: Obama called Joe saying that he got the go-ahead from Kamala to invoke the 25th Amendment. Hersh noted that Obama dropped this bomb at breakfast time on July 21. Hours later, Biden would quit the race:

[Bullish]

Poor Jill Biden, it must be really lonely now that nobody pays any attention to her.

>snicker<

[BradyLS]

…Barack Obama was already working behind the scenes to force Biden to exit the race, which brings us to this piece of palace intrigue: Obama called Joe saying that he got the go-ahead from Kamala to invoke the 25th Amendment. Hersh noted that Obama dropped this bomb at breakfast time on July 21. Hours later, Biden would quit the race:…

Where the current administration is concerned, how does Obama have the power to invoke anything? How does Harris “give the go-ahead” to Obama to do anything? I mean, Obama is in no official position or have authority to do any such thing, does he?

[Sacajaweau]

Not one American voted for Kamala to be the Presidential Candidate...Not One...This is very wrong...

[discostu]

Obama doesn’t have the power to invoke the 25th. So that makes the story quite obviously LIES. Really people stop with this idiocy.

[ClearCase_guy]

That is true.

I think it is “weird” that Kamala walks around with all of Joe’s delegates in her own pocket. Exactly how did that happen? What process was followed?

It feels like she just took them away from Joe because Barack Obama said she could.

[puppypusher]

Since when is this new news? The rats are very experienced with coups.They prevented President Trump from winning his second term by stealing it.

[Buttons12]

He caved, that's not a coup. Besides, he probably negotiated, as usual, and then sold out.

[Alberta's Child]

Biden dropped out because he knew he was going to lose.

Schumer and Pelosi pushed him out because they knew they’d face a disaster in the Senate and House elections, too.

[C210N]

Be mindful that “Biden” has renewed Trump’s national emergency EOs. Notably, 13848, million interference in a domestic election

[hanamizu]

“Obama called Joe saying that he got the go-ahead from Kamala to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

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Perhaps the sentence should read, “Obama called Joe saying that he gave the go-ahead to Kamala to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

[C210N]

Million = foreign

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Exactamundo.

[TalBlack]

“If”?

Joe Biden has been a feckless weakling all his life. They’re done with him.

[MinorityRepublican]

Either he was threatened with the 25th am. or the deep state told him something very damaging was going to be exposed about him and or his family.......Either way it really was blackmail.

I think they told him that if he did not step down, they'll put his son in prison for life. So he felt like he had no choice in order to keep Hunter free.

[Flaming Conservative]

Make that non-TAXABLE nonrefundable, and we’ve got a deal! (payable through oh, say...Ukraine into a Swiss account). You can never be TOO rich.

[Flaming Conservative]

Not one American voted for Kamala to be the Presidential Candidate...Not One...This is very wrong...

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And have you noticed her demeanor and walk, now? She’s strutting around as if she won the grand prize in a cock fight, and now feels as if she’s the queen bee. All business, in control. If only her unscripted verbiage didn’t prove she’s an airhead, completely out of her league. But, no problem; the media will fix everything, while the White House will hand out “corrected” transcripts.

[bigbob]

If we really were as vulnerable as you fear, wouldn’t an “attack” already ave occurred? The window of opportunity has closed.

[little jeremiah]

Hey - here you are! Seymour Hersh, from articles/news I’ve read from him, is very reliable.

[jz638]

Hersh isn’t a fake news peddler, though his stories often rely on anonymous sources, so much cannot be verified.

Hersh is absolutely a fake news peddler, his story on the Nordstream bombing was beyond belief, to get sourcing for the details he was writing about, it would be impossible, it was all made up. Any media pundit who doesn't immediately see that is peddling fake news as well.

[2big2fail]

I believe this 100%.