Top Mueller Prosecutor Suggests Trump Is Gearing Up For A Military Coup
Via Daily Caller, Vox
Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor on the special counsel’s investigation, suggested on Monday that President Donald Trump fired his secretary of defense in order to pull off a military coup and remain in office.
Earlier on Monday, Trump fired Mark Esper as Pentagon chief, replacing him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
Weissmann asserted on Twitter that Trump had installed a “flunky” that might allow him to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
The Senate confirmed Miller, a former Army Green Beret, as director of NCTC in August.
The Associated Press and other news outlets projected on Saturday that Biden will win the electoral college vote over Trump.
Trump’s lawyers have filed lawsuits seeking recounts in several swing states. Trump has not conceded to Biden pending the outcome of the lawsuits.
Weissmann said that Trump’s firing of Esper was “serious,” though he offered no evidence that president is setting the stage for a military coup to remain in office.
“To have a successful coup, a leader must control the military,” wrote Weissmann, who is now an analyst at MSNBC.
1. To have a successful coup, a leader must control the military.
— Andrew Weissmann (@AWeissmann_) November 9, 2020
2. Trump just fired DOD Secretary and installed a flunky.
3. This is serious.
4. Will Republicans speak up, or will they remain complicit?Weissmann, the former chief of the Justice Department’s fraud section, led the investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. ... Full Article By Chuck Ross @ Daily Caller
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Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
Slate’s Joshua Keating popularized the form, but other outlets, including Vox, have deployed it. The intent was to use the tropes of foreign coverage to create a sense of what the literary critic Darko Suvin called “cognitive estrangement”: severing us from the familiarity and overconfidence that can dull our awareness of extraordinary events. And so you’d get leads like, “the pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic.”
But the slight air of parody lent the whole enterprise a sense of unreality. America isn’t a banana republic. It wasn’t happening there. It was happening here, and that made all the difference. In order to even see the danger, to recognize the depth of tensions or the possibilities of fracture, we had to control for American exceptionalism, for the implicit belief that we were the United States of America, and we were different.
If the past four years — and the past four days — have proven anything, it’s that we are not as different as we believed, not as kissed by providence as we hoped. Perhaps we are not different at all. We need to cover it as if it happening here, because it is. Full Article By Ezra Klein @ Vox
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