Abbreviated pundit roundup: The story about the attempted coup is penetrating the media bubbles
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Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer: A theory: How Trump’s Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed The planned coup nearly worked, but leftists stayed home and likely thwarted plans to call in troops to aid insurrectionists. Team TrumpAbbreviated pundit roundup: The story about the attempted coup is penetrating the media bubbles
Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer: A theory: How Trump’s Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed The planned coup nearly worked, but leftists stayed home and likely thwarted plans to call in troops to aid insurrectionists. Team Trump — after months of violent street clashes between Trumpists and counter-protesters — obsessed on so-called “antifa” just before January 6. On January 5 alone, Trump tweeted for antifa to “stay out of Washington” and signed a memo for stepped-up monitoring of antifa, with a press release: “President Trump will not allow Antifa, or any terrorist organization, to destroy our great country.” So when all hell broke the next day, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reached Trump by phone, urging him to call off the insurrection, according to a GOP congresswoman, “the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol Read more