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slater71

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Wed Aug 31, 2022, 02:16 PM Aug 2022

A great opinion piece on what trump could have done if Jan 6th was successful.

If you don`t read it all because it is long, go to the end and look at the letter Chris Smith wrote in agreeing to have the guard at the capital on the 6th. Look at what they were not allowed to have with them to defend against a riot. https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/donald-trump-conspiracy-even-bigger/

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A great opinion piece on what trump could have done if Jan 6th was successful. (Original Post) slater71 Aug 2022 OP
A great piece. Would be great to have a piece speculating on who empedocles Aug 2022 #1
Big K&R! Bayard Aug 2022 #2
K&R, thank you for posting, and please, folks, go and read the linked Op-Ed piece. n/t Mister Ed Aug 2022 #3

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. A great piece. Would be great to have a piece speculating on who
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 02:48 PM
Aug 2022

was in the planning when, and where. Outside think tanks, rw organizations, consultants'

"Some legal experts contend that newly reported text message sent from Donald Trump Jr. to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows demonstrate that the former president and his allies were planning a "coup" from the start—even before votes were fully counted in the 2020 election. . . "

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-texts-show-coup-was-plan-start-legal-experts-say-1696639


trump sources to:

Detailed references to coup attempts, sucessful and not, from other countries.

Detailed checklist of areas to be coverered - presidential executive order forms for various possible uses, key Members of the House & Senate, armed provocations, DOD agencies, etc.

[Hard to believe trump, and his motley crew circle, could have schemed all this out]

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