Top Trump Aide Calls Impeachment Inquiry ‘Attempted Coup D’état’

Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro described House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump as an “attempted coup d’état” on Tuesday.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1252918

The ballot box is OK with it, genius. :roll_eyes:

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No, using the legal system to investigate the president’s illegal or unethical actions is not a coup…impeaching the president because you don’t like him and caught him getting a blowjob and lying about it, that’s a lot closer to a coup.

Republicans are really ramping up the warlike language around this, I really wonder if they understand the consequences…and I fear they are hoping for them.

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More like a coup d’etwat, amirite?

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Fearmongering dimwit…

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"an attempted coup d’état and end run around the ballot box”

The one wherein Cockholster received 3 million less votes? That ballot box, Pete?

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They’ve pulled out the Last Stop.

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"and end run around the ballot box,”

He has to stop talking about the GOP’s past strategies or someone might start to figure things out.

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Between China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the House of Representatives Chiselin’ Trump and congressional Republicans, “I don’t know which one’s more dangerous right now in the next couple of months,” he said.

I don’t know, either. It’s a tough call.

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This is major-league, bigly crazy train. They’re well on the way off the rails. I hope they won’t take us all over the cliff…

Navarro compared Democrats to Soviet secret security chief Lavrentiy Beria.

What the hell?

First of all, I guarantee 99% of Americans have no idea who this guy was.

Secondly, he was called by Stalin as his “Himmler”, and headed his security services. He was a thug who organized massacres, and killed or imprisoned millions of people, calling them -get this - “enemies of the people”. Also, a sexual predator who raped numerous women, abusing his official capacity.

Now, who does that remind you of?

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I suggest Dim Bulb Navarro read (if he can read) Article 2 Section 4 of the Constitution. trump attempted to bribe the President of Ukraine and potentially other countries to get dirt on Biden or to discredit the Mueller Report. And trump is still committing obstruction.
If Navarro casts aside the foregoing then he should read trump’s own account thru the “rough transcript” the White House released. trump’s own words he gave blessi g to be released convict him. No this is a response to crime and abhorrent behavior, not a coup d’ etat.

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I’m really shocked that these people think it is perfectly OK for the President of the United States to shake down foreign governments for his own personal gain in a federal election. How can we ever trust anyone involved in this with any elected office ever again?! We’ll have to burn down the entire 21st century GOP and salt the ground. Scary.

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You took the words right out of my mouth. Spot on.

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They’re so cute when they’re scared shitless, they say the darndest things.

Stay stupid, my friend, stay stupid.

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Anyone else see this?

This guy is a fucking HERO.

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I have relatives who were sent to the gulags by him. Yeah, Nancy Pelosi is exactly like him, the way that ice cream is exactly like cement mix.

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Well, impeachment is written into the Constitution. And the Constitution was written and signed by a bunch of folk who fomented a coup against a tyrannical power. So…what was the point again? It’s hard to follow his train of “thought”.

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Therefore George Washington was Beria!

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Navarro should have to answer for that deeply offensive comparison. It is thoroughly revolting, and the Dems haven’t even actually done anything yet! Their panic is off the charts.

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