WND EXCLUSIVE

NEW WARNING: 'RESISTANCE' TURNING INTO AMERICAN 'COUP'

'An attempt to overturn November's election and forcibly remove a duly elected president'

Bopb Unruh

It’s common knowledge that large numbers of Democrats simply have been unable to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election: a Donald Trump presidency and a departure from socialism of Barack Obama.

Democratic leaders apparently believed Hillary Clinton was entitled to the election, having manipulated their primary system to ensure Sen. Bernie Sanders would not get the nomination, according to hacked emails.

And it’s no surprise that those who still are in a state of glassy-eyed disbelief are setting up a “resistance,” an ongoing opposition to Trump and his agenda. Democrats promised such organized “resistance” even while the last votes were being counted and have followed through with a steadfast refusal to allow even bipartisan plans to move forward. In some cases, the “resistance” has turned violent.

But now it’s gone even further, according to several leading conservative commentators who are warning the nation of a “coup” developing against Trump – an effort, essentially, to overturn the 2016 election.

Even the left sees it, although few admit it.

“A soft coup is underway right here in the United States of America in an attempt to overturn November’s election result, and forcibly remove a duly elected president,” warned Sean Hannity on his Fox News program.

Sean Hannity

He said there are several components, the first of which is a “destroy-Trump media” that has been lying to the American public.

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Another component of the coup, he said, is the so-called “Russian collusion” claim that insiders in the Trump campaign worked with Russia to interfere in the election.

Then there are the “deep state” lawbreakers, he said, the Obama-era leftovers in the federal bureaucracy who are selectively leaking government information to damage the president.

And there’s a DOJ investigation into the alleged “Russian collusion,” with special counsel Robert Mueller stacking his team with Clinton backers who actively opposed Trump.

Hannity said the left is trying to “manufacture” turmoil in Washington.

“The media has one clear shared goal in mind: damage, top Trump’s presidency, by any means necessary,” he said.

Some have gone so far in their claims, he said, they are “unhinged.”

Even Democratic leaders has admitted there’s no evidence of collusion, Hannity has pointed out.

The “deep state” activists, he warned, are “willing to break the law, leaking classified information” in their hatred for Trump.

Fired FBI Director James Comey admitted under oath, for example, to taking government records and leaking them to the media to try to bring about an investigation of Trump, he said.

See his comments:

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly – who was forced from the network after allegations of sexual harassment, which he denies, emerged – is on a tour to rebuild his brand name.

He said recently the “same people who came at me are behind what’s happening to [Trump].”

“I know that this is a fraud being perpetrated on you, the American voters.”

O’Reilly said it’s because “the progressives … didn’t or won’t accept the election.”

See his comments.

The far-left Right Wing Watch blog, an operation of the People for the American Way campaign, quoted pastor E.W. Jackson asserting on his radio program a “coup d’etat” is underway.

“Folks, hold on to your seats, because I really believe that we are witnessing an attempted coup d’état in America. I’m serious about that. I believe that we are witnessing an attempted coup d’état in America,” Jackson said.

There are people who are unhappy with Trump’s election who “are dedicated to overthrowing his presidency, dedicated to doing it; if they can’t find something, they’ll make something up.”

But Daily Kos blogger Chris Gray contends it’s Trump who is trying to stage a “slow” coup “to free himself of the constitutional limits on residential power and those oh-so-annoying checks and balances it mandates.”

He argues that Trump can be removed through “the very fuzzy 25th Amendment [that] allows for the replacement of a nonfunctional president on the say so of the vice president and a majority vote of the leaders of the House and Senate and the top 15 cabinet officers.”

“This way of ending Trump’s presidency would not be a coup d’état. For one thing, many of us already believe that Trump is mentally incompetent to be president. This is actually a good time to use the 25th Amendment.”

But Gray adds: “Now, if a small group of players decides that this is all too much trouble and kills or injures Trump as a way of ending his presidency, that would a coup. Heads of state are killed with some regularity, even in the United States. Such a coup need not represent a consensus of elites.”

Gray spent more time warning about the signs of a coup being carried out by Trump, not against him.

“What are the other warnings signs of a Trump coup d’etat?” the column continued. “In general, overreach. A security and military response that doesn’t match the real threat. This could include: all commercial air grounded … increased use and powers to Homeland Security centers … mass arrests … censoring the press.

“Really bad signs: Martial law … banning all public assemblies, suspension of habeas corpus … internment camps … nationalization of state national guards.”

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U.S. News & World Report took up the argument that impeachment is not considered a coup.

It quoted Dinesh D’Souza commenting, “I fear we’re witnessing nothing less than a coup attempt against a lawfully elected government.” It also noted Gary Bauer, Tom Tancredo, Ben Stein, Lou Dobbs and others have made similar comments.

“Impeachment isn’t a ‘coup,’ and it doesn’t ‘reverse an election.’ It’s a lawful constitutional procedure that James Madison considered ‘indispensable’ for ‘defending the community against the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief magistrate,'” the publication said.

“Impeachment is the process through which the people’s elected representatives can remove a federal officer they’ve determined is unfit for continued service. Its purpose, constitutional scholar Greg Weiner explains, is ‘prophylactic,’ not punitive: ‘to protect the public against his negligence or abuse.'”

As for the claims of “collusion,” WND Vice President David Kupelian has noted the historical documents that do reveal collusion between U.S. officials and Russia.

He points to collusion between the Russians and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

“As I documented last year, today’s Democratic Party, pushed radically leftward by President Barack Obama (whom both former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy and ex-New Left leader David Horowitz accurately call a ‘neocommunist’), has become almost indistinguishable from the Communist Party USA. In case you didn’t know, the CPUSA came into existence as a U.S.-based, Moscow-controlled-and-funded communist party, but has lost most of its influence and support since the Soviet Union collapsed, thanks to President Ronald Reagan. Today, the CPUSA no longer fields its own presidential candidates, but rather, urges voters to support Democrats, having enthusiastically endorsed John Kerry, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,” he wrote.

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The collusion, he said, happened when, “during Reagan’s first term as president, liberal Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy made secret overtures to the Soviet Union to thwart Reagan’s re-election! Yes, this actually happened! When I reached out to Reagan biographer and Russia scholar Paul Kengor, he nailed the details – and the media’s stunning hypocrisy.”

“‘Democrats are searching desperately, frantically, hysterically, for any tangible proof that Trump or one of his aides or associates was reaching out to the Russians to influence the 2016 election,’ Kengor, a political science professor at Grove City College, told me. ‘Well, the May 1983 KGB document between Victor Chebrikov (head of the KGB at the time) and Yuri Andropov (head of the USSR at the time) details an offer from Ted Kennedy to help the Russians prior to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 election campaign.’ Kennedy’s purpose: Prevent Reagan’s re-election.”

“‘It’s an actual official Soviet document,’ Kengor told me, ‘one that was housed in the Central Committee archives until it was discovered after the Cold War in 1992. I first published the document in full in my 2006 book on Ronald Reagan, ‘The Crusader.’ (See the original Soviet document memorializing Sen. Edward Kennedy’s collusion with Russia, first in Russian and then translated into English.)”

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 http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/new-warning-resistance-turning-into-american-coup/