Is Trump staging a coup or just running a con? No reason he can't do both

[marmar]

Is Trump staging a coup or just running a con? No reason he can't do both
Trump's odds of overturning the election were always low — now they're zero. But suckers keep on giving him money

By BOB CESCA
DECEMBER 8, 2020 1:00PM


(Salon) It's pretty damn obvious what's going on with Donald Trump and the election, and it's probably not an attempted coup. At least, that's not necessarily Trump's primary intention with his laughably unserious procession of 50-some failed legal challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump and his Republican enablers lost five cases on Friday alone, with more in Michigan and Georgia over the weekend. Meanwhile, his perpetually shvitzing lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, tested positive for COVID after appearing in court on multiple occasions without a mask. And yet Trump and his gullible Red Hats keep reacting like Lloyd Christmas in "Dumb & Dumber." Faced with one-in-a-gazillion odds of actually winning a case, their response continues to be, "So you're telling us there's a chance!"

These suckers happen to be Trump's target customers, especially now.

Sure, Trump wants to be president for another four years. In fact, he'd probably be happy to serve in the post for the rest of his miserable life. Consequently, if there were to be an evidentiary breakthrough, which I suppose is always possible, he'd absolutely bask in the results and start planning his inaugural address.

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It turns out that the performative coup, including the bogus "whistleblowers" and all of Trump's various "lookits" ("Lookit Philadelphia! Lookit Dominion! Lookit Detroit!" ), is only half of our transactional president's latest transaction. He's selling his Red Hats a stack of lies and nonsensical conspiracy theories about the election disguised as hope. In return, these badly deluded suckers are handing over their checking accounts to Trump's Save America PAC in the midst of a crushing recession. ............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/08/is-trump-staging-a-coup-or-just-running-a-con-no-reason-he-cant-do-both/

[beastie boy]

1. There is no money to be made in staging a coup. There are literally hundreds of millions in tax free

cash to be made in whipping up the base. As a bonus, with his armed groupies being pivotal in electing GOP lawmakers, he has got the entire Republican Party apparatus by the balls. Why stage a coup and risk an embarrassing failure?