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Trump's coup goes beyond a grift: The president is desperately seeking any path to stay in power By Amanda Marcotte For weeks now, Donald Trump's hopes of stealing the 2020 presidential election from the winner, Joe Biden, have been fading. Nonetheless, the dumbest and worst president in American history continued sending out fundraising appeals to his endlessly gullible supporters, giving birth to the theory — to which I, personally, subscribed — that Trump's coup is little more than another one of his many schemes to defraud people. After all, the Trump campaign spent very little on the actual legal efforts to challenge the election and redirected most of the cash into what is likely going to be used as a slush fund for Trump and his family. And yet, as Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported in the New York Times on Saturday, Trump is deep in talks with an increasingly unhinged cast of characters, all of whom believe there must be a way to steal the election even though the Electoral College made Biden's win official last week. The president invited conspiracy theorists like his former lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security advisor Gen. Michael Flynn to the White House on Friday to discuss a potential declaration of martial law as a last-ditch effort to force a second vote in some swing states. That suggestion came from the disgraced Flynn, who has been involved in violently oppressive work on behalf of Turkey's authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The group also discussed "an executive order to take control of voting machines to examine them," though it's unclear what that would accomplish. There's no reason to think the voting machines were hacked and it's unlikely that Trump's team has the technical know-how to alter the machines to generate vote tallies more pleasing to Trump. The chattering politicos of Twitter responded to news of such a bizarre spectacle by arguing about the odd placement of the article on page A28 in the New York Times print edition, with one side arguing that the president considering a military coup is major news no matter what, and the other side arguing that because Trump isn't going to pull it off there's no reason to get fussed about it. The latter group is wrong, of course, as Trump is still incredibly successful at undermining democracy, even if he's failing to steal the White House. READ MORE: Trump's coup goes beyond a grift: The president is desperately seeking any path to stay in power https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr...
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 8:35AM
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For weeks now, Donald Trump's hopes of stealing the 2020 presidential election from the winner, Joe Biden, have been fading. Nonetheless, the dumbest and worst president in American history continued sending out fundraising appeals to his endlessly gullible supporters, giving birth to the theory — to which I, personally, subscribed — that Trump's coup is little more than another one of his many schemes to defraud people. After all, the Trump campaign spent very little on the actual legal efforts to challenge the election and redirected most of the cash into what is likely going to be used as a slush fund for Trump and his family.
And The Band Plays On.
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 8:37AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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It's not a coup you idiot, and there's nothing desperate about it.
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 6:47PM
Steve Williams
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What do YOU call trying to overthrow 20 Million American Votes to declare The LOSER, The "WINNER?
What do you call that Steve?
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 7:55PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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How did Trump try to overthrow 20 million votes? What, the President can't bring a lawsuit now? The President can't tweet? When did they pass that law Ron? Or is this not the United States of America for whose freedoms you put your life on the line I've been told?
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 8:07PM
Steve Williams
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YOUR QUESTION STEVE: How did Trump try to overthrow 20 million votes?
MY REPLY: Steve, you do remember, the court’s justices, six of whom were appointed by Republican presidents, three by Trump, have separated themselves from the pattern of hard-core partisans who were asking the court to use baseless claims of widespread voter fraud to disenfranchise millions of voters.
Steve, how can you forget Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Trump had persuaded a group of 18 other Republican state attorneys general to join in, on this effort.
I know that you could not forget 126 Republican members of Congress to sign on to arguments that would have reversed the will of voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Steve, that totals up to 20 Million Voters that these good old boys wanted to change and give that victory to TRUMP.
YOUR QUESTION: What, the President can't bring a lawsuit now?
MY REPLY: YES!!! Steve, I never said that TRUMP could not bring lawsuits Steve but TRUMP would tell YOU and his supporters that he can argue voter fraud but when he goes to court, the judge hears their case and then throw it out because TRUMP has NO evidence to prove his case. Steve, I believe Trump has tried some 30 times and all of them FAILED.
YOUR QUESTION STEVE: Or is this not the United States of America for whose freedoms you put your life on the line I've been told?
MY REPLY: YES Steve, it is the same country and The Supreme Court of The United States of America held fast by LAW to put down Trump's FAILED attempt to overthrow 20 million American votes without any proof. For that, I am proud to be an American.
NOW Steve back to my question;
What do YOU call trying to overthrow 20 Million American Votes to declare The LOSER, The "WINNER?
What do you call that Steve?
A Coup or WHAT?
Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 at 9:26PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Not, "a coup". It's called, "you cheated".
Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 at 1:33AM
Steve Williams
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Proof it, Steve? Have you forgot that The Supreme Court laughed TRUMP case out of The Highest Court in the land, have you forgot that?
Proof IT!!!! Where is THE BEEF?
TRUMP failed to overthrow 20 Million American votes, what do you call Trump's failed attempt Steve?
Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 at 3:51PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Use your common sense Ron. How did Biden get all thosse votes? He didn't for real, nobody even laughs at his jokes.
Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 at 7:22PM
Steve Williams
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You can't prove the LIES that you are telling., that is the reason why you have NOT come up with anything proof YET. Now one thing that we the people of Black In America do know and that is you can't prove a thing you have said in defence of Trump yet, YOU are a JOKE just like TRUMP.
Friday, December 25th 2020 at 11:16PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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