Another thread sourcing this same foxnews story is on the board today, dripping with righteous indignation over the supposed attempt to "overthrow" the 2016 election, to commit, by God, A COUP!! What rubbish.
There was no "coup attempt". There was only an effort by the FBI and others in the government to unravel an American President's ties to Russia, and there were ties, secret ties. One of the most blatant was Trump's hidden plan to build a hotel in Moscow, not a plan from long ago, but a current plan negotiated during the 2016 primary season. Trump was careful to keep it from voters. Still, the deceit was bound to be discovered and when it was, with the primaries all but safely behind him, was his campaign wrecked, as Hillary's surely would have been had voters found out she tried to make a secret deal with Russia for her personal enrichment. Not even scratched. Was Trump perhaps embarrassed? Not in the least. He said of the deal behind his voters backs, "it was cool", and voters shrugged - "if the dude says it was cool, it was cool". There were of course many other contacts and afterwards and ever since the election he has behaved toward Putin, not as the leader of an adversarial nation, but like a puppy wanting to be petted. With Russia's connivance Trump has sidestepped much of the effort to investigate his Russia connections. That may pick up again once he's gone. But it was never "a coup" attempt, or anything close to it. The most that could have happened is that the truth would have come out. Whether or not that truth amounted to treachery, no "coup" would have transpired in his Republican Senate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/du...iminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says
There was no "coup attempt". There was only an effort by the FBI and others in the government to unravel an American President's ties to Russia, and there were ties, secret ties. One of the most blatant was Trump's hidden plan to build a hotel in Moscow, not a plan from long ago, but a current plan negotiated during the 2016 primary season. Trump was careful to keep it from voters. Still, the deceit was bound to be discovered and when it was, with the primaries all but safely behind him, was his campaign wrecked, as Hillary's surely would have been had voters found out she tried to make a secret deal with Russia for her personal enrichment. Not even scratched. Was Trump perhaps embarrassed? Not in the least. He said of the deal behind his voters backs, "it was cool", and voters shrugged - "if the dude says it was cool, it was cool". There were of course many other contacts and afterwards and ever since the election he has behaved toward Putin, not as the leader of an adversarial nation, but like a puppy wanting to be petted. With Russia's connivance Trump has sidestepped much of the effort to investigate his Russia connections. That may pick up again once he's gone. But it was never "a coup" attempt, or anything close to it. The most that could have happened is that the truth would have come out. Whether or not that truth amounted to treachery, no "coup" would have transpired in his Republican Senate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/du...iminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says
