Just because it's a dumb coup attempt doesn't mean it's not a coup attempt.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. IMO, the coup attempt started with Russian intervention.

They don't spend their time and money to compliment a charismatic narcissist without getting something in return. Russia had its agents crawling all over the White House from inauguration day onward. Putin just had to engineer an election, and he'd be home free. In a second term, Trump would invite Putin to the White House and then set up deals that enrich Russians and impoverish the US. Trump is sociopathic first, an Oligarch second. He wants to be in the community of oligarchs, just like Putin. It was to be a convergence of forces that would make every unscrupulous billionaire smile. But Trump couldn't deliver. So the scheme fell apart. (More discipline and less narcissism would more likely have meant a dismantling of the Constitution.)