Co-conspirators to an Attempted Coup d’état
First, a definition:
coup d’état- n. (kuː deɪˈtɑ) Fr: [ku de ta’] ) also known simply as a coup, an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
Setting aside the all-too-soft interview of the disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe by Scott Pelley on CBS News’ 60 Minutes– an interview designed to make McCabe appear to be some kind of patriotic hero (and assist him in the sales of his new book), we now have an admission that an attempted coup d’état took place in May of 2017.
If what McCabe said in the interview is indeed true, then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who authored President Donald Trump’s justification for the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, took it upon himself to initiate proceedings in an attempt to remove the President from office by invoking the 25th Amendment.
According to McCabe, it was Rosenstein who mused about the “number of additional cabinet-level officials” (neither Rosenstein nor McCabe were such) who would vote to remove Trump from office, via the 25th Amendment. McCabe also claimed that Rosenstein offered to be “wired” in order to trap the new President, a claim which Rosenstein first denied, and then said was only offered in jest. McCabe even claimed that two of Trump’s cabinet officials were “a go” on the attempt, despite the fact that the 25th Amendment, enacted in 1965, only applies to a president who is physically or mentally incapacitated from discharging his duties. Only twice in the last century, was a President so duly incapacitated.
The stroke which incapacitated President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 would have invoked the proper use of this amendment. More recently, when President Ronald Reagan was shot in March of 1981, the 25th Amendment was temporarily invoked while Reagan was in surgery to remove the bullet from his chest cavity.
Nothing in the 25th Amendment addresses the issue whereby a President isn’t preferred, or commits an act found to be personally objectionable, such as firing an FBI Director who has run afoul of the law by leaking confidential information, directly or indirectly, to the press- like James Comey did when he leaked details of a confidential conversation he had with President Trump in February of 2017, through a Columbia University professor to the New York Times the following May.
A president, any president, may fire an FBI Director at will and for any reason, or no reason at all. However, that wasn’t good enough for a Deputy Attorney General (Rosenstein) or a Deputy FBI Director (McCabe) who worked diligently to absolve Hillary Clinton of very real crimes like obstruction of justice when her operatives bleach-bit some 33,000 e-mails illegally stored on her private server and when they hammered to bits wireless phones and other “smart” devices, both of which had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department. No, instead, because these two “deep state” apparatchiks didn’t like the decision of American voters to elect Donald Trump as the nation’s forty-fifth president, they manufactured a reason of their own to oust a duly-elected president from office. By using false information from a Clinton-paid-for dossier, they had Robert Mueller named as special counsel to investigate a crime which they both knew, all along, bore no evidence and was completely without just cause.
Some $40 million and two years later, the ill-conceived and mis-begotten Robert Mueller investigation continues unabated. Yet, no evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, nor evidence of justice obstruction in the firing of James Comey, has been brought forth- and there is a reason for this…it simply does not exist.
So, what we are left with is simply this:
Donald Trump was elected the nation’s forty-fifth President of the United States, much to the chagrin of an elite group of Justice Department and FBI officials who wanted Hillary Clinton to be elected, instead. By white-washing her very real crimes, and then illegally surveilling the Trump campaign, they nevertheless failed in their effort to see her elected. Then, having failed this, they attempted to undo and overturn the results of a free and fair election, by attempting a silent coup d’état- the first time ever in the history of the United States…
…and while the mainstream media seeks to rationalize and minimize this very real conspiracy against a duly-elected President of the United States, in so doing they have missed the biggest story of our lifetimes- an attempted overthrow of our government by “deep state” insiders, who honestly believed that they knew better than the citizens they were sworn to serve.
God help us.
-Drew Nickell, 18 February 2019
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