January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/03/january-6-donald-trump-coup-america

31 comments

  2. No Trump supporter has been able to genuinely explain to me how the Eastman memos did not lay out an attempt at stealing the election.

    The article doesn’t even mention them but they in my opinion are the most damning evidence Trump tried to destroy democracy.

  3. Don’t trust Republicans. All they do is gaslight, obstruct, and project.

  4. Never heard of such a thing! Oh, wait:
    The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed military coup d’état in Munich, Bavaria on November 8–9, 1923:
    Leaders: Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other Kampfbund leaders
    Goal: To overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish a new government based on race
    Plan: Seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and seize military and administrative buildings
    Location: Began at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich
    Casualties: 16 participants died during the takeover
    The Beer Hall Putsch helped fuel Hitler’s rise to power. In his courtroom speeches, Hitler portrayed himself as a savior and patriot who wanted what was best for Germany.
    And then 10 years later Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933

  5. And the Supreme Court made sure it worked, slowly, but it worked.

  6. You can’t call it an attempt any more now that he is taking office again. January 6th was the beginning of a long, slow, successful coup.

  8. It would not have worked had it not been supported by so much of America. Sad to see, it was rather easy to pull off.

  9. They can say whatever they want. Anyone with half a brain knows what went down.

  10. It’ll be a point in the history books that USA did not punish the organizers of the coup.

  11. Even if he did not try to do it he sure as shit didn’t try to stop it

  12. We fixate too much on the random bozos wandering through the Capitol building and far too little on the elected bozos who were intended to be in the Capitol, but trying to convince the VP he could either toss out votes or just skip the session and let someone more amenable to tossing out votes do the job. That’s the bigger concern.

  15. “Part of” is the important piece. Jan 6 was just one facet of the conspiracy

  16. It worked. Republicans learned from Russia.

    Play the long game. The western media and public are too fickle. They cry and scream about it. And when it comes to an election they sit out because they exhausted themselves and are too burnt out and fractured to actually do what matters.

    It shows Democracy has failed. It does not work because the public can’t be trusted with their own rights or freedoms. They are too easily manipulated

  17. There were 3 or 4 different attempts going on. Whatever Trump plan was, Navarro “Green Bay Sweep”, the rioters, the fake electors. So I guess we’ll have to wait for the book.

  18. It laid the groundwork for their successful “campaign” in 2024. They knew what they had to do this time to hoodwink the public. Welcome to hell, no smoking please.

  19. An insurrectionist is becoming president and he is selling America off to billionaires. We should all be protesting

  20. I agree! However, the five sandwich eating people of this country have voted him in for a second term…. He’s going to try his damndest to erase everything and stay for a third term. You can guarantee it.

    Also, if you think that January 6th was bad, he’s going to do something even worse.

  21. It doesn’t matter since they decided to allow the man who blatantly encouraged the behavior back into the White House.

  22. And he got away with it. All of it. He will never see justice and the American justice system is responsible.

  23. Too late. He is back in power and he is there to stay. Say good bye to voting.
    He and his group of criminals will rewrite history to make sure everything is changed according to whatever they say is right.

  24. “Attempted”

    It looks pretty successful now, it just took a few years to play out. The system proved utterly incapable of holding a wealthy/powerful person accountable no matter how egregious and obvious their guilt was.

    Now that person is going to be president again, with full knowledge of his absolute immunity and the stated goal of weaponizing the government against his enemies.

    The coup didn’t fail.

  26. What do they say when confronted with the video evidence? I don’t understand.

  27. It wasn’t attempted, it just took an additional four years to see it through. It’ll be complete on January 20th.

  29. A third of Americans will believe whatever Lachlan Murdoch tells them to believe.

  30. In a couple of weeks it’s going to be a successful coup d’etat. Why are so many people still in denial about this?

  31. So fucking sick of seeing these articles- why does it even matter anymore? It seems like no one can/will do anything about it anyways?!? I’m so disappointed feeling thinking about this election and what is to come and realizing that more people than I thought stand behind this vile man and his actions.

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