Yeah, this isn't very convincing. Most of this applies a double-standard to Trump, whereby his mistrust of the voting processes and vote counting is cast as an attempt to overthrow the election, meanwhile I listed multiple other instances of the same behavior coming from Democrats—although often in more polished or through more "official" channels—and nobody bat an eye at it.
There's also the flaw of mind-reading, where the author claims he has special insight into Trump's mind and can *just tell* he knew he had lost and was pretending otherwise. The main piece of evidence for this is the testimony of an individual unconstitutionally appointed to investigate Trump by his political opponents: https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1790860530195791990. Pretty shoddy evidence and in fact, makes more of a case that the "attempted coup" narrative has been cultivated intentionally for the purpose of lawfare.
And this is ultimately why I don't buy into the hype about Trump "attempting a coup," which besides sounding absurdly dramatic on its face, is revealed to be more dependent on the media's framing of the very same things that previous politicians have done than on anything particularly unique to Trump.
That said, I disagree with Trump's reaction to the election because it's ultimately an unproductive way to raise concerns about election corruption and only provided his opponents with fodder to concoct grandiose narratives about him "attempting a coup." But there's a world of difference between being a bad sport about losing and attempting a coup. As all the other points I made previously show, only Trump gets journalized in a way that takes the same behavior other politicians have done and paints it as the End of Democracy™.
A good example of why this is likely propaganda is the fact that a coup never actually happened nor did it come close to happening. Usually real tyrants try a little harder, perhaps like Clinton funding a smear campaign that almost led to the false imprisonment of her election opponent...but somehow that just doesn't get the same attention.
Here’s a good summary of the evidence: https://open.substack.com/pub/benthams/p/trump-attempted-a-coup
Yeah, this isn't very convincing. Most of this applies a double-standard to Trump, whereby his mistrust of the voting processes and vote counting is cast as an attempt to overthrow the election, meanwhile I listed multiple other instances of the same behavior coming from Democrats—although often in more polished or through more "official" channels—and nobody bat an eye at it.
There's also the flaw of mind-reading, where the author claims he has special insight into Trump's mind and can *just tell* he knew he had lost and was pretending otherwise. The main piece of evidence for this is the testimony of an individual unconstitutionally appointed to investigate Trump by his political opponents: https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1790860530195791990. Pretty shoddy evidence and in fact, makes more of a case that the "attempted coup" narrative has been cultivated intentionally for the purpose of lawfare.
And this is ultimately why I don't buy into the hype about Trump "attempting a coup," which besides sounding absurdly dramatic on its face, is revealed to be more dependent on the media's framing of the very same things that previous politicians have done than on anything particularly unique to Trump.
That said, I disagree with Trump's reaction to the election because it's ultimately an unproductive way to raise concerns about election corruption and only provided his opponents with fodder to concoct grandiose narratives about him "attempting a coup." But there's a world of difference between being a bad sport about losing and attempting a coup. As all the other points I made previously show, only Trump gets journalized in a way that takes the same behavior other politicians have done and paints it as the End of Democracy™.
A good example of why this is likely propaganda is the fact that a coup never actually happened nor did it come close to happening. Usually real tyrants try a little harder, perhaps like Clinton funding a smear campaign that almost led to the false imprisonment of her election opponent...but somehow that just doesn't get the same attention.