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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 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/
empedocles
(15,751 posts)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 starteven 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]
Bayard
(21,806 posts)Eye-opening, and scary as hell. Its a long read, but required.