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Coup Plotters Considered Never Allowing Trump To Be Inaugurated
2020-10-12
Via Rantingly
[And Magazine] An exclusive report based on a senior Department of Defense official’s account — the coup plotters considered never transferring power to the President-elect of the United States of America.

Recent revelations, including the declassification of key documents, have effectively ended any speculation about what really transpired in 2016 and 2017 in regard to Donald Trump and spurious allegations of Russian collusion. The story was a fabrication. None of it was ever true. There really was a conspiracy, and we really did witness the first attempted coup in American history.

Information uncovered within the last few days by AND Magazine adds significantly to our understanding of the scope of the conspiracy and suggests strongly that subsequent to the election of Donald Trump there was serious consideration given to simply not transferring power to the President-Elect.
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Circa November 10, 2016, the senior official speaking to AND Magazine received a phone call in his office at the Pentagon on a secure phone. The call was from the Department of Defense Under-Secretary's office that coordinated attendance and participation in inter-agency meetings at the White House. The call concerned planning for a short fuse, inter-agency meeting at the White House. It was explained that a new committee was being formed to finalize and establish the timeline and storyline connecting Russia with the election of President Trump. The senior official speaking to AND Magazine had been named to be part of this new committee.

During this phone call, it was explained to AND's source that one of the committee's taskings was to develop a plan to delay and/or reschedule the inauguration. While the official to whom the call was made ultimately deliberately avoided attending committee meetings, he did see subsequent Top Secret email traffic that showed significant inter-agency discussion of the possibility of not proceeding as scheduled with the transfer of power.

At some point, this idea appears to have been dropped in favor of proceeding with the strategy of creating an impeachment narrative, but for months apparently there was significant discussion of the possibility of simply not handing over the Presidency to Donald Trump.
Posted by:Phuque Whereger7256

#10  any GOP swamp creature would have resigned 10-15 days into this multi-pronged attack.

Not possible, by definition. Remember, the genesis of the coup was the GOP ELITES themselves: Jeb and McCain.

The swamp is the Uniparty is the swamp.
Posted by: Ebbusosing Photle4617   2020-10-12 15:00  

#9  The coup conspirators miscalculated Trump’s strength. We all know any GOP swamp creature would have resigned 10-15 days into this multi-pronged attack. Trump fought and is still fighting.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-10-12 14:51  

#8  Well, I mean what do you expect from the likes of Obama and Biden? These men have no scruples but they must have known that they were in over their heads.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-12 12:22  

#7  Coup plotters lost their nerve. Lenin would ashamed of these cowards.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-12 12:17  

#6  ^ Echo chamber plus a bunch of louder than usual voices each in love with the sound of his / her /its own voice. I probably happened about exactly like you opine ZB9997
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-12 12:09  

#5  It started with Jeb and McCain. For them it was the fear (correct, as it turned out) that Trump and his Great Unwashed would turn the GOP against illegal immigration, free trade, and endless military adventurism and end our elites' embrace of China.

It spread to Hillary. For her and her people including Glenn Simpson and Nellie Ohr it was just an ordinary plumbers-style Watergate campaign op to distract from her email server scandal - along with, of course a desire to keep the gravy train running.

Team Hillary enlisted the Obama WH and the FBI. Then it got legs.

For Obama and ValJar and Kerry & crew, the biggest fear (correct, as it turned out) was that he and his people especially Flynn would set out to undo their precious Iran deal. They wanted to nail Flynn to keep the money flowing to the mulkags and preserve this sham non-"achievement" of Zero's foreign policy.

For Comey, McCabe, Bruce Ohr and for Strzok and his fellow mid- and low-level FBI conspirators it was probably a combination of genuine loathing of career advancement (in the event of a Hillary win) and genuine disdain for the boorish anti-swamp Orange Jacksonian.

Zero and Comey brought in the CIA, from which this eventually spread to the never-Trumper Joint Chiefs.

Throughout this series of crimes, the media were rabid accessories.

Amazing, really. Am I dreaming? Did this all really happen to us here in our country?
Posted by: Zorba Bumble9997   2020-10-12 11:43  

#4  /\ You may be on to something there Merc, a reluctance to share power, a categorical disdain for a 'non-beltway' player, the arrival of someone who cannot be bought. Other elements may likely include a curtailing of 'Endless Wars' and control of the Military Industrial Complex. Trump's strong stand on China, globalization, and illegal immigration were probably not on the Deep State's agenda either.

Jumping to other topics; any Wiki leaks-Assange developments? Mike Flynn case, Seth Rich murder? Ghislaine Maxwell? Christopher Steele? Lollita Express ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-10-12 08:05  

#3  [W]hat exactly is it that they wish to hide?

That's the pathetic part, B. They don't have anything in particular or particularly bad to hide. They just think everything they have and work towards is the be-all-and-end-all...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-12 07:48  

#2  Ref #1 YES and we've known this for 3.5 years...

When the Intelligence Community (both current and former members) came out en masse against the Orange Man along with seniors in the FBI, defense establishment and DoJ, you had to know something was dreadfully amiss.

Former Director NSA (DIRNSA) Admiral Mike Rogers solo trip to Trump Towers to reportedly warn of illegal surveillance of the ongoing campaign was my tipping point. The evidence began snowballing after that.

The only remaining question now is, what exactly is it that they wish to hide ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-10-12 07:34  

#1  YES and we've known this for 3.5 years...

So when will the Dept Of Slow Justice start indicting those involved for TREASON?

We understand that the initial AG kinda gummed up the works early on, but that still leaves 2 years of nothing.

Posted by: Steve T.   2020-10-12 06:22  

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