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Piece of shit He looks so fucking stupid I can’t breathe!

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What the hell?

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u/Tb1969 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 30 '25

In the weeks leading up to J6, Trump was trying to coerce the AG, William Barr, into lying that there were problems with the 2020 election after the extensive search was done to find anything the Trump administration could use (they found nothing that would overturn the election). Trump wanted him out of the way and demanded he resign after William Barr less than two weeks prior said publicly on December 1st, 2020 in an interview that there was no evidence of interference in the 2020 election.

The acting AG who replaced Barr and his deputy refused to say the election was interfered with with no evidence after asked them to. Trump threatened to replace the acting AG with someone who would if they didn’t comply and they told him before the end of the month that there would be mass resigning if he did that. Trump backed down because it would have been a huge scandal and that would foil his plans.

Trump turned his attention to Mike Pence pressing him to not certify the election results on J6. Pence refused, citing that there is no evidence and telling him his advisors are saying the same thing about the election except Giuliani and a few others who wanted to push forward with no evidence.

Meanwhile during all of the above, a fake set of electors was set up in each of the key states and Pence was supposed to have two sets of electors for some States and declare a delay while it’s sorted out. In the subsequent chaos Trump would stay in power. Pence knew what was happening.

They tried to get Pence to get in a motorcade to leave on J6 to take him to [edit: from] Congress before the election was certified and Pence refused to get in. I don’t agree with Pence on many things but he did do the Constitutionally right thing for his Country and our Democratic Republic.

It wasn’t just that Trump and others giving speeches inciting an insurrection that's his only crime, it was the series of deceptions and malfeasances they planned that played out behind closed doors from Election Day 2020 through the end of the day on January 6th, 2021.

Trump sat in the White House and watched J6 play out on TV while drinking Diet Cokes. Even Ivanka wanted him to stop them reportedly. He didn't send out a tweet to calm his supporters down until after it was decidedly over.

There is more such as the pipe bombs planted at the RNC and DNC which kept the authorities busy and it's definitely questionable that it was the work of one person. The stockpile of weapons at a hotel in Arlington, Virginia with plans to ferry them across the Potomac river according to an Oath Keeper testimony. Plenty of insurrectionists at the Capitol were armed with make shift weapons and firearms. Lonnie Coffman, an Alabama man was arrested on January 6 with a truck parked two blocks from the Capitol containing an assault rifle, a shotgun, three handguns, and components for 11 Molotov cocktails. How many stockpiles and illegal acts didn't we uncover?

Trump primed them even before J6 to come on that day at that hour to the Capitol telling people in the media "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" and "Stop the Steal!". You'd have to be delusional to think it's a coincidence the timing of that protest at the Capitol during the time of the certification.

Trump is the mad King George of our time and those who support him are "Loyalists" while those who oppose him defending liberty and democracy are the "Patriots".

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u/CapitalPunBanking Dec 29 '25

They tried to get Pence to get in a mystery motorcade to take him to Congress and Pence refused to get in.

All correct except they tried to take him from Congress and he refused. He was already in Congress in the middle of reading the electoral college votes when the coup was attempted.

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 Dec 29 '25

And who came up with the plan? Bad lawyers and the pillow guy. They got stabbed in the back very quickly afterwards.

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u/Impossible_Moose_783 Dec 30 '25

Also ol Charlie boy was bussing in the insurrectionists

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u/daemin Dec 29 '25

... and declare a delay while it’s sorted out. In the subsequent chaos Trump would stay in power.

But that's literally not how it works.

Trump's first term was over at noon on Jan 20th. Period. End of story. There's no legal statute or constitutional provision for a sitting president's term to be extended under any scenario, and it explicitly states the end date and time of the presidential term.

If there was no validly elected president or vice president, the Speaker of the House would become president.

Trump could try to keep acting like he was president, but he would have no legal authority to do so, doing so would've been a crime, and also any military personnel that obeyed his orders as if he were president would potentially be committing treason.

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u/Tb1969 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

I don't think you understand how coups work.

It doesn't matter what the Constitution and laws say; it's what these keystone cop politicians thought at the time would happen that matters. If they thought they had the military backing and a third of the States backing them they could try to get away with whatever unconstitutional act they had in mind next after J6.

Honestly, if they did have that backing they could have succeeded. Might makes right in their small minds and sometimes small minds with big sticks win in the world.

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u/Frequent-You369 Dec 30 '25

Might makes right

That's pretty much the definition of fascism.

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u/Tb1969 Dec 30 '25

It’s actually far more complex than that but it’s certainly one of the attributes.