By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on November 17, 2020
The plot to overthrow the duly elected government of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began in earnest on Monday, November 9, 2020. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper refused to participate in the coup d’état and was promptly fired that day by defeated incumbent president Donald J. Trump.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) bought into the plot and gave a speech on the Senate Floor on November 9th signaling his buy-in.
Attorney General William Barr bought into the plot immediately after the November 3rd election. On November 9th, Barr sent a memo to all of his 94 U.S. Attorneys and FBI agents ordering them to investigate voter fraud in connection with the November 3rd presidential election, even though the Trump Campaign has failed to produce any credible evidence of voter fraud in any of the lawsuits it has filed since the election.
The chief of the Department of Justice’s election crimes division, Richard Pilger, abruptly resigned on November 9th over the issuance of Barr’s memo, which marks the first time in 40 years that the Department has initiated criminal investigations into election activities without any proof of illegal criminal conduct. The last time this scenario occurred, the Department was targeting black voters in Southern states for voter harassment and voter suppression.
Mike Pence is silent. He reportedly is scared to death about his involvement in Trump’s coup d’état.
The U.S. Supreme Court is packed 5-4 in Trump’s favor. Five of the High Court’s six conservatives are ideological clones of Donald Trump. Amy Coney Barrett, the Court’s newest Justice, is not a Trump clone. Barrett’s independence is anchored in her personal and professional integrity, which is beyond reproach.
Trump has also appointed nearly 200 other judges to federal appeals and trial courts around the nation. With these appointments, Trump has saturated the federal judiciary with political hacks who, for the most part, received lifetime appointments to the federal bench based upon their ability to kiss Trump’s derriere.
The Acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, will coordinate with Barr on a plan to use the military and federal agents to maintain “law and order” during and after the coup d’etat. Trump has already alluded to a nationwide military presence to distribute new COVID-19 vaccines. Now, the military will add a “law and order” function, as well. Detention centers at U. S. military bases across the country are ready to house Americans who violently resist the coup.
Federal prosecutors will target swing states like Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia for Barr’s voter fraud criminal investigations. The Grand Jury Secrecy Act provides a cloak of secrecy for federal prosecutors to do their dirty deeds behind closed doors and beyond the reach of judiciary scrutiny. These probes are fishing expeditions that target people and Democratic Party G-O-T-V organizations rather than crimes. Unsupervised and politically motivated federal prosecutors can “twist” any lawful political activity into “voter fraud”.
Prosecutors do not have to nullify Joe Biden’s 5 million vote lead over Donald Trump. They only have to invalidate a sufficient number of votes in the swing states to take away Biden’s lead in these states. This will make Trump the putative Electoral College winner.
The federal grand jury probes will also have the operative effect of stopping Republican secretaries of state in swing states from certifying the final vote tabulation by the deadlines for certification. Furthermore, they will stop the Federal Election Commission from certifying the presidential winner, as well.
There will be no official winner declared for the 2020 presidential election while the grand jury probes continue. A federal grand jury probe can last from 18 to 24 months. The probes in the swing states will last for 24 months.
With no declared winner of the presidential election on or before January 20th, 2021, Trump will suspend the U.S. Constitution’s provisions relating to the presidential election and declare martial law, citing the ongoing federal criminal probes. Of course, the Grand Jury Secrecy Act will provide Trump cover for not disclosing the nature and extent of the voter fraud under investigation. During this period, most of Trump’s U.S. Attorneys will remain in office beyond January 20, 2021 to implement the coup.
It should be apparent to everyone by now that Donald Trump is NOT leaving the presidency on January 20, 2021. His is ushering his concept of “minority-rule” into the new paradigm of American politics.
Trump and Barr hold all of the executive power in Washington. They also control all of the federal agencies needed to implement this coup. Joe Biden and a majority of voters in the November 3rd election hold none of the reigns of power in Washington.
Trump and Barr also know most federal judges are nothing but judicial fluffers for prosecutors. They only show backbone when body-slamming black, brown and poor defendants in their courtrooms.
Trump is a despot who is willing to do anything to stay in office. Trump has always placed his self-interest above the national interest.
Is a second American Civil War on the horizon? Will Americans support the imposition of martial law by a president who lost the popular vote and Electoral college? Will Trump’s refusal to leave the White House result in the mutually assured destruction of America’s 233-year-old democracy?
We shall see!
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