Foreign Mil Allies Believe Trump Attempted a Coup w/ Help from Fed Law Enforcement

[CousinIT]

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French law enforcement experts who’ve trained alongside Americans said that they have no doubt that Trump attempted a coup.

The failure by police to stop the insurrection wasn’t a coincidence, & Trump was likely in charge— directing them to stand down

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1

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While they did not furnish evidence that federal agency officials facilitated the chaos, Insider is reporting this information because it illustrates the scale and seriousness of Wednesday's events: America's international military and security allies are now willing to give serious credence to the idea that Trump deliberately tried to violently overturn an election and that some federal law-enforcement agents — by omission or otherwise — facilitated the attempt.

'Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup'

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"I can't believe this happened."

A law-enforcement official who trains with US forces believes someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

[catbyte]

1. I believe it but we'll probably never know the truth "for the good of the country."

[reader1]

17. The truth is already known.

that Trump is the mastermind behind the failed coup attempt.

[LiberalArkie]

30. Trump was just the conduit for Stephen Millers instructions I believe.

[onetexan]

38. Yes its clear as day

[octoberlib]

32. We know a lot, though.

Like that Trump’s lackey at the Pentagon, Kash Patel refused to authorize the National Guard right away. Congress will investigate, stuff will leak and I believe most of it will come out.

[HUAJIAO]

2. "Foreign Mil Leaders Believe Trump Attempted a Coup w/ Help from Fed Law Enforcement"

So does HUAJIAO...

[roamer65]

3. If it was an attempted coup, it was incredibly weak.

It was doomed to fail because he has NO support from the military.

[Cosmocat]

27. The hell it was

There litetally was one last barricaded door away from these assholes tearing the shit out of congressmen. Had that one LEO not shot that women and backed them down.

Their only failure was not having enough of these assholes armed.

[Harker]

29. Duly noted by the next traitorous gang of assholes

to riotously assemble to assault our government, no doubt.

[roamer65]

33. By world standards it was weak. It didn't have military backing.

When I think of a coup d’etat, I think of Pinochet and Chile in 1973 as a prime example.

[Cosmocat]

34. It isnt over

He tried, but wasn't able to pull the military into it.

But we have BY FAR the most armed citizenry in the planet and it just ao happens that the most heavily armed are the loons who are getting pulled into it AND as we repeatedly have seen our law enforcement is corrupted in a way to enable it.

I would also note, they suffered FAR less, in fact next to no repercussions from it. One person was shotband killed. Everyone else strolled out, gloated in social media and hit the hotel bar.

This wasva BIG win for them and we already see them amping up for more.

[roamer65]

35. Good news, I am in a Trumpy area of MI on the weekends.

The flags and shit are coming down.

[Cosmocat]

36. I do know some Rs who were genuinely off put

By it, but still see the majority going even further into reality free delusionalness ...

[C_U_L8R]

4. Just imagine if he'd succeeded.

And more alarming, it's not over. Nuclear armed and out of his mind, Trump is still in power and plotting/executing the next step of his insurrection. Impeach and convict post haste or suffer the consequences.

[triron]

5. You think our media will go there? Doubt it.

[rlegro]

18. Actually, Friday night's edition of PBS Newshour DID go there. Stream it at newshour.pbs.org / EOM

[lindysalsagal]

6. Idiots forgot it would all be filmed

And we're not as dumb as they are.

The whole thing looked like a cable reality show.

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. Add to that many would never wear a "fake-virus" face mask

That's just for the libtards.
In fact I was thinking that maybe if this was not during a pandemic, some of those without facemasks, would probably be wearing one that day to conceal themselves. But their pride and fear of being labelled a sell out, kept their faces free for cameras to record.

[marble falls]

7. And I think the coup came closer to fulfillment than we know. It's a good thing Trump has ...

... rule against hiring anyone smarter than he. Incompetent storm troopers might be the only reason we aren't in a civil war today.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Agreed. Dumb crook story to end all dumb crook stories.

[marble falls]

13. Gonna be books about it. Actually if we could forget his responsibilitiy for a significant ...

... of what the CDC says is over 400,000 already dead including untested, a lot of the rest of his "term" would be fairly funny. I mean tossing paper towels, covfefe, magic marker maps, two handed glass holding - but then you'd also have to forget 600 separated children and space blankets and chain link for hundreds more.

Now we get why he was against testing. The numbers would be better without it.

[meadowlander]

14. I think so too.

That woman who was shot was shot because she was storming a barricade outside Nancy Pelosi's office in the hallway where they were still evacuating members of congress. They would not have used deadly force if they were not protecting legitimate assets.

Also those computers have software that shut them down automatically if they aren't used for four or five minutes. If they got into computers it was because staff were evacuated from the room less than five minutes earlier.

They didn't have the whole of the Capital Police on board and the SS stepped up. I think they came very close to getting hostages and if they had it would have been a totally different story. They'd probably still be barricaded in there.

[tikka]

19. That video of a capitol cop waving people that had breached the barricade toward the capitol

[LiberalArkie]

31. He had probably already heard that the congress had been evacuated at that time. So it was a

matter of saving their lives and retreating. Their job of protection was in others hands.

[tikka]

37. That doesn't what he was doing in the video.

Nobody in his immediate vicinity was in danger. By waving them toward the Capitol, he actually put them in danger.

[link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016282996||

[Cosmocat]

28. Yep

Agreed

[triron]

8. knr

[triron]

9. kick again

[IronLionZion]

10. Yeah, I'm getting those vibes

it should definitely be investigated by the Biden Administration and hearings in front of Congress. There were so many hearings for Benghazi and Hillary's emails so we can ignore any GOP whining about partisan witch hunts.

[David__77]

15. A fascist/police coup would have been the way to do it.

Even since the Capitol incident, the Chicago police union chief endorsed that action. That's the sector of the state that was wooed by both Trump and his core political forces including various "patriots," white supremacist and more "ecumenical" fascists like the Proud Boys.

I paid attention to an article by Ted Rall stating:

I acknowledged that Trump “doesn’t have the support of the military—but he doesn’t need it.” Instead of a Latin American-style military coup, I said, “his would be a ‘police coup’ carried out by the numerous local police departments whose unions endorsed him for reelection, alongside federalized state police and deputized paramilitary MAGA goons.”

It hasn’t happened yet, and maybe it won’t, but nothing has changed about Trump’s precarious legal situation. One of the lessons of history is that nothing trumps the strong human motivation for personal survival. An intelligent assessment of Trump’s thinking must begin with the question: why wouldn’t he attempt a coup?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/30/trumps-self-coup/

It's certainly worthy of investigation.

[Straw Man]

20. The problem with that plan is that ...

... ultimately they would have to confront the US military, who would not -- repeat NOT -- be on their side. And the plotters would lose. Bigly.

[AntiFascist]

22. Except for this asshat who is second in command of the military...

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/08/the-pentagon-denied-multiple-requests-to-send-national-guard-during-capitol-siege-gop-governor-says/

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said federal officials repeatedly denied his requests to deploy the state's National Guard to quell the deadly Capitol riot on Wednesday as members of Congress pleaded for assistance.

[Straw Man]

23. I don't think one asshat can sway the whole brass establishment.

Especially when he's fomenting sedition. The cat's already out of that bag, and he wouldn't get away with that again.

[AntiFascist]

24. Why is he getting away with it at all?!! n/t

[Straw Man]

25. I wan't referring to punishment or accountability.

By "getting away with" I meant "accomplishing," and he already did.

[AntiFascist]

26. Sorry, my question was rhetorical...

so far only Rachel Maddow made a big deal out of this yesterday with no follow up.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. How the deuce did they deduce that?

Deduction.

[Iggo]

40. Deuced savants, they.

[AntiFascist]

21. No shit! n/t

[orangecrush]

39. Exactly