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The attempted coup, and that's what the Financial Times called it on January 4th, needs a full investigation.
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Did Donald Trump attempt to organize a military coup against the incoming Biden administration? The evidence suggests he did. If this is true, he should be charged with sedition and treason and not merely impeached.
Did Mitch McConnell, as majority leader of the Senate and the person who is ultimately responsible for the Capitol Hill Police, deliberately allow the protestors into the Capitol Buildings? Did he know the rioters intended to storm the buildings and create as much mayhem and violence as they could? Did he do this to discredit Trump after the President's military coup had failed?
There's little doubt McConnell knew what was coming and did not take action to prevent the buildings from being breached by the mob's organized leaders.
There must be a serious and transparent investigation into what led up to the events of January 6th. Instead, the Democratic Party and the majority of the media are focused on what Trump said on the day and what they call the "insurrection" of January 6th. But the evidence suggests that the riot was the final act of a failed coup, and if that had been successful, was far more dangerous than what happened on the Hill.
Here's some of what we know about the events leading up to January 6th. I'm sure this is only the tip of the iceberg as to what went on behind the scenes, but there is enough in the public record to demand a special investigation, done with full public scrutiny.
On September 17th, six weeks before the elections, Steve Bannon appears on the Tucker Carlson show and calls for war starting on November 4th after the Democrats steal the elections from Trump. Carlson is, of course, nodding his head in agreement. There should have been no surprise with what happened after the November 3rd election; it was all planned in the open.
Steve Bannon
"The Democratic Party has traumatized their base. They're not going to come out to vote. And so somehow, they have to concoct some effort to steal this election cause they're not going to get people to come out and vote on game day, November 3rd of this year. And that's what I've been working on for the last couple of months. I was never going ba- I was never going back to the campaign. And that's where these guys messed up my platforms better now, my voice is bigger, I've got more resources, and all we're focused on is to make sure that the progressive left and the corporatists cannot steal, cannot steal the election of Donald Trump. I'm more focused than ever. We're kicking off a national tour on Monday called "The Plot to Steal 2020." They're not going to stop my voice in assisting President Trump and making sure that this election that he's going to win on the third is not stolen from him.
Tucker Carlson
Huh. And then maybe the real contest begins. Steve Bannon, I'm glad that you came on. Thank you very much.
Steve Bannon
That's when the war starts.
I'm beginning to think that's true."
Of course, Democratic Party voters did turn out, and much of that was by mail-in ballot. After November 4th, Trump calls the vote results stolen and a fraud and launches dozens of lawsuits challenging the results. The war is on. Majority Leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell plays along, defending Trump's "right to challenge the results." He later claims he was told that Trump would eventually concede.
It's clear that the election results were not the result of widespread election fraud, and in many courtrooms, Trump's challenges fail. Even Republican legislatures confirm the results. Trump does not concede, and as we get closer to January 6th, when Congress will certify Biden's election, Trump gets more desperate.
Trump ally, Retired General Michael Flynn, that is recently pardoned General Flynn, calls for military intervention and martial law on December 17th. In an interview on Newsmax, Flynn says Trump "could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states," he continued, adding: "I mean, it's not unprecedented. These people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done. Martial law has been instituted 64 times."
The media pundits didn't take Flynn seriously, and I didn't either.
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