The Donald Trump MAGA movement is so incensed at seeing President Joe Biden inside The White House, they’re now suggesting that a military coup should be staged against the United States.
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Former national security advisor and current Trump-flunkie Michael Flynn has joined the MAGA minions and QAnon conspiracy theorists in believing that widespread cheating cost Donald Trump the presidency. In fact, Flynn is so engulfed in the belief that Trump is the rightful winner of the 2020 election, he wants to go beyond the January 6th attack on Capitol Hill and actually overthrow the government and re-install Trump as commander-in-chief.
During the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” conference in Dallas over the Memorial Day weekend, Flynn said the military coup that happened against the Myanmar government could and should also happen in America.
There’s “no reason” it shouldn’t happen here, Flynn said. “I mean, it should happen here. No reason.”
Flynn previously encouraged Trump to invoke martial law and hold a “do-over” election to get the results he wanted in certain swing states.
The fact that a top military general and former national security advisor to the president would suggest a coup to overthrow the US government was immediately criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike.
One such Republican was Rep. Liz Cheney, who was kicked out of the Republican congressional leadership for daring to go against Trump’s big lie that he was cheated out of the election.
“No American should advocate or support the violent overthrow of the United States,” Cheney tweeted.
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No American should advocate or support the violent overthrow of the United States. https://t.co/dpa20pLG4n
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 31, 2021
Another critique came from a decorated military general.
“This is harmful. This is putting the country at risk,” Gen. Barry McCaffrey said. “I have never heard anything like this, probably in the last hundred years. This kind of, just completely irresponsible, provocative language.”
Once Flynn’s words went viral, he predictably denied ever saying them.
“For all the fake news ‘journalists’: Let me be VERY CLEAR — There is NO reason whatsoever for any coup in America, and I do not and have not at any time called for any action of that sort. Any reporting of any other belief by me is a boldface fabrication based on twisted reporting at a lively panel at a conference of Patriotic Americans who love this country, just as I do. I am no stranger to media manipulating my words and therefore let me repeat my response to a question asked at the conference: There is no reason it (a coup) should happen here (in America),” Flynn said in a statement.
Apparently, Flynn forgot the marvels of modern technology and the possible existence of his words being captured on video.
Words have weight and carry meaning — and Trump’s MAGA minions take these words literally and as a call to arms.
Are we really at the point where a coup to overthrow the US government is an actual discussion?
Slate: There seems to be no limit to the depths of disgrace and discredit that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will scrape in his plunge toward political extremism. But does his latest headline-grabber cross the line into criminality? Can he somehow be punished for advocating a coup? This is serious business. We’re talking about a retired three-star general who was President Donald Trump’s national security adviser and, before then, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The fact that he was fired from both of those high posts—from the White House for lying to the vice president, from the DIA for running the agency into the ground—doesn’t minimize the dangers of this appalling, reckless breach of the military’s most sacred commitment to obey lawful civilian authority. But, again, did Flynn commit a crime? The First Amendment protects free speech, but the Uniform Code of Military Justice—which applies to retired and active-duty… Read more »