The coup against Donald Trump is the biggest political news in years, dwarfing Watergate, and its full scope has yet to be revealed. We are only getting the picture in bits and pieces. It’s big because it goes to an attempt to overthrow an elected president by government officials and assorted associates in law and media using nefarious schemes and means short of actual guns and assassination.
It’s big because the crimes are associated with Democrats. Ordinary people who are Democrats are going to experience a lot of difficulty reconciling the facts that will be revealed with their years-long animosity toward Trump. There is going to be a lot of denial and rationalization going on. It’s going to be hard for people of different parties to agree because of the embarrassment of having to admit that one side has been wrong all along and has been fooled and betrayed by false reporting all along. Voters who prefer Democrats are going to sulk. They’re going to rationalize that impeachment isn’t worth it, or that Trump is being let off by the Senate, or that they’ll get their pound of flesh on election day. They’re not going to admit they’ve been conned, manipulated and fooled. Their hatred of Trump is too ingrained at this point.
The latest piece of the puzzle is something of a smoking gun, showing that the coup attempt goes back to at least January 2017. Actually, there is ample evidence that the attempt to sabotage Trump was already well-formed and in progress in 2016; and its roots go back even years before that. John Brennan apparently led the effort, but the hand of Obama was almost surely present too.
Eventually we will know all the details. (See here, for one route.) Eventually we should have enough information from the prosecution of those involved that we can fairly judge their various motivations for their contributions to producing a very big wrong. The participants need to be given the opportunity to defend themselves. At the same time, we deserve to know who did what, when they did it, how they worked their schemes, their relationships, in what ways they broke laws and betrayed their oaths of office, and why they did it.
The smoking gun in today’s news is newly-reported here and here.
The latest part of the coup scheming is Ukrainegate, and that was set in motion by Adam Schiff in conjunction with a fake whistleblower, actually a CIA spy in the White House. At the moment, his identity is all but known or public, and his name is Eric Ciaramella. He has engaged a lawyer named Mark Zaid. Such an engagement is not a random choice out of the phone book. That is not how the swamp works. Swamp dwellers have multiple connections with others who aid their schemes. This Zaid apparently made some tweets in January 2017 that gloated about the coup against Trump having been started:
“Mark S. Zaid wrote on his certified Twitter account on Jan. 30, 2017, Mr. Trump’s 11th day in power, that ‘#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately. #lawyers.'”
Trump had just taken office 11 days earlier, and already Zaid foresaw how the coup scheme would play out into impeachment. The events (or “steps”) designed to bring down Trump have been far from accidental or random. They’ve been consciously planned and executed so as to bring bad publicity upon Trump, trap him into the appearance of crimes, and energize impeachment by making it appear that he was committing crimes like obstruction of justice and consorting with enemies.
7:56 am on November 7, 2019
