Trump Entertains Coup Discussion

You know when crime family consigliere Rudy "Toot Toot" Giuliani is the "quasi-voice of reason" in a meeting, the coup- curious Trump Crazy Train has jumped the tracks:

At the White House on Friday, President Trump held what may have been his most deranged meeting yet. In it, the president raged at his loyalists for betraying him, and discussed taking extralegal measures to overturn the election.

The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, convicted felon Michael Flynn, and Rudy Giuliani. One plan floated at the meeting was for Trump to appoint Powell as a “special counsel” overseeing allegations of voter fraud. Powell’s voter fraud claims are so fantastical she has been mocked even by other far-right legal conspiracy theorists. Andrew McCarthy, a former birther and author of one book titled How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda and another calling for his impeachment on multiple counts, has described Powell’s vote-fraud claims as “loopy.”

Trump also reportedly brought up Flynn’s proposal, which he has expounded on cable news, to impose martial law and direct the military to hold a new election. “At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr. Trump asked about that idea,” reports the Times.

Before panic sets in:

...[T]he striking thing is that he is veering to positions so extreme and self-defeating that even his loyalists have blanched. Perhaps the most alarming fact about the Friday meeting is that Giuliani, who has spent months spreading fantastical claims of imagined voter fraud, became a quasi-voice of reason. Giuliani has proposed using the Department of Homeland Security to seize and examine voting machines — a move the Department has resisted — but even Giuliani opposes appointing a nutter like Powell.

The real concern of these loyalists is not that an actual coup will be launched. (It would fail and its instigators and enablers would end up in federal prison for a long time.)  It's a more a self- preservation and short-term politics concern:

In all likelihood, their concern is not some scenario where tanks roll down the streets or Trump blockades himself in the Oval Office on January 20 like Al Pacino in the last scene of Scarface. It’s that Trump will spin so completely out of control that he discredits them, or puts the Georgia special election at risk. The crazies are turning on the crazier.

That's right.  It's not saving what's left of American democracy that they care about.  It's protecting their non- existent reputations and the Republican margin in the Senate by electing corrupt Trumpist Senators Perdue and Loeffler. 

Short of a fantasy of tanks rolling in the streets, we can expect yet more frantic calls from Mango Mussolini for someone to do something! to magically stop the Biden Administration from taking power on January 20.  Mango Mussolini's Proud Boys/ Oath Keepers Waddling Waffen street thugs can be expected to engage in sporadic acts of intimidation and violence up to, including and beyond Inauguration Day.  For starters, a January 6 rally in Washington, DC, is being promoted by Mango Mussolini -- the same day Congress counts the electoral votes and certifies Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the winners.  You can expect the rally goers to make a lame attempt to "stop the steal" by marching on the Capitol. 

That's what their cuckoo coup will amount to.