Trump’s Coup Attempts Probably Won’t Work, but Notes Are Being Taken.
No matter what, this is far from over.
With election 2020 finally behind us and Joe Biden now the President-Elect, it’s safe to say that the current occupant of the White House handled the loss of the election as many of us have expected he would since before he even took power. Still refusing to concede, and outright denying any access or cooperation to the Biden transition team now forced to go about the process alone, Donald Trump — predictably — appears to be muddying the waters as much as he possibly can. In fact, the waters have been muddied to such an extent that many are sounding the alarms of a coup attempt, escalating the warnings after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to concede that Trump had lost the election.
At this point, with it now being widely reported that Trump does plan on running in 2024, it feels at least a little bit safer to assume that he plans on leaving office. But of course, Donald Trump is going to bend the American institutions to the breaking point in his last ditch efforts to cling to power anyways, with his campaign putting pressure on Republican legislators in critical states to appoint a brand new slate of pro-Trump electors in an effort to steal the electoral college vote. The efforts — at least at this point — do not seem to be…
