The Dark Details of Trump’s Coup d'etat that have yet to be Explained
(The House Committee investigating the January 6th Day of Shame has unearthed damning facts that raise even more ominous questions)
By
David Gottfried
I applaud the work of the House Committee investigating Trump and Company’s January 6, 2021 insurrection. However, the more dirt I hear, the more questions I have. These are a few of my questions:
1) Trump did not ask the military or Homeland Security to defend the Capitol. The House Committee’s investigation reveals that Vice President Mike Pence called them and asked for their aid. However, if the military or Homeland Security ever arrived, they were very, very late. Why didn’t the military move expeditiously while the lives of our legislators, and Mike Pence, were in peril. Why didn’t they promptly heed Pence’s request to go to the Capitol. Had Trump’s poison infiltrated the ranks of the military ?
After all, we know that in a meeting at the Whitehouse in December 2020, attended by certifiable snakes like Rudy Guiliani and Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, who had been a United States General, said that the President should declare martial law and that the military should confiscate election machines and materials from state officials who had lawful custody of them. (You may recall that Mike Flynn was Trump’s first National Security Advisor but was booted out of office after it was disclosed that he was an unregistered agent of both the Russian and Turkish governments, having received thousands of dollars from both governments.)
2) I heard Governor Hogan of Maryland (A Republican) say, shortly after the January 6 day of shame, that he wanted to send Maryland forces (I think it might have been the National Guard) to the Capitol to Defend our legislators. He said that his request to send forces to the Capitol was refused. Who specifically told him that Maryland forces were not at liberty to defend the capitol? I heard Hogan make these allegations on television. I don’t remember which news program I was listening to, and I don’t recall all of the details of Hogan’s information. But I most definitely recall that Governor Hogan said a) that he wanted to send forces to the Capital and b) that his request to send forces was denied.
My recollection was not in way apocryphal.
Indeed, I just saw a report, by David Cohen on Politico, published on January 10, 2022, which says the same thing: Governor Hogan related that he wanted to send troops to the Capitol, but his request was denied.
The Politico report states that when asked about Hogan’s accusations, Jonathan Hoffman, a pentagon spokesman, said “no comment.”
No comment is not good enough. Jonathan Hoffman should be questioned: Who told him to say, “no comment.” Why was he told to say, “no comment?”
Furthermore, while I thank Governor Hogan for telling us that military officials declined to let him send forces to defend the Capitol, we need more information from Governor Hogan.
A criminal prosecution is not built on pronouns. Words like “they said” or “he said” will not do. Please, Governor Hogan, name names.
3) We already have evidence that Trump did nothing to quell his band of rioters, save for telling them, more than three hours after the riot had begun, to go home. However, the preceding two points in this essay, a) that the military refused Pence’s request to send forces to defend the Capital and that b) parties told Hogan that he could not Defend the capital, show us more: They demonstrate that Trump’s criminal confederates actively stymied and hobbled law enforcement.
4) Did the purchase of “shorts” in the stock market surge immediately before the events of January 6th ?
Political VIPs have a long and sordid history of playing the market, to capitalize on other people’s misery, when they know horrible things are imminent.
For example, in January 2020, while Trump was telling us that Covid posed no great danger to America, he told Bob Woodward (Of Woodward and Bernstein Watergate fame) that covid was an enormous danger because it was easily transmissible and much more lethal that the flu. Other well-placed big shots also knew that covid was poised to kill many Americans. Articles in the New York Times, about a year ago, revealed that several Senators, including at least one Democrat, liquidated their holdings or shorted certain stocks in January and/or February 2020 because of their inside information regarding Covid. (When one “shorts” a stock or engages in “short selling,” one makes a quick mint by betting that a stock will nosedive in price.)
Shortly after 9/11, the New York Times revealed that a marked increase in the purchase of shorts, on airline stocks, took place on the eve of 9/11. These odious traders knew that 9/11 would depress air travel, and they betted that air line stocks would tumble. Of course, some of these traders were, presumably, intimates of the Ben Ladin family. However, how many other people, who executed trades or who were privy to the short-selling, knew that a bunch of Bin Ladin’s confederates were short-selling.
If the Justice Department were truly on the job, many of these traders would be behind bars. To my knowledge, NOT ONE PERSON has been indicted, let alone convicted, in connection with short selling instigated by the knowledge that the world trade center was due to come tumbling down.
Given the readiness of VIPS to use their inside information to complement the killing of people being burned alive with a killing on the market, I am sure some of the Trumpers made some big bucks in connection with January 6.
Although they may have adored Adolf the Second, they probably realized that his theft of the election would cripple the pole-vaulting Dow Jones like a polio virus crippling an athlete. In any event, I would favor an examination of the stock transfers and trades of key Trump associates to determine if they dumped their stocks as Trump took a dump on America. Of course, I doubt that any such examination will take place. If Congress can’t agree on an assault weapons ban (Footnote 1), then I am sure Congress would consider an investigation of the stock trades of a fiend like Rudy Guiliani cruelly intrusive.
5) Last night, I once again saw “Judgment at Nurenberg,” a movie made about 60 years ago with regard to some of the trials of Nazi War Criminals that took place in the aftermath of World War Two.
So many of the culpable Germans were so very much like the elites of the Republican Party. Study your history, and view this magnificent film (Starring such cinematic luminaries as Maximillion Schnell, Spencer Tracey, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and many more) and the parallels between the dirty 30’s of Germany and psychopathic post-Millennial America become as clear as tell-tale violent, projectile vomiting warns us of brain cancer. (Trumpism, metaphorically, is sort of like a cancer of the American mind.)
Hitler, like Trump, was a figure of the far right. However, Hitler’s base, like Trump’s base, consisted of only a certain segment of the far right.
Neither Hitler nor Trump had industrialists, mega millionaires, bankers or the nobility, in the case of Germany, or the old money, our-ancestors-came-over-on the Mayflower crowd, in the case of America, in their respective bases.
Instead, Hitler and Trump both made political Hay with lower middle class nativists (Those Germans who identified themselves, first and foremost, as German and those Americans whose primary identification was their white race and their “Christian” faith) who felt that they were being short-changed. The German lower middle class was enraged because they felt that the old wealth of the aristocracy was being stolen by the Jews, and the American lower middle class believes that the privileges of the old, Protestant elites are being stolen by blacks, women or the intersectional nightmare of their ideology: A big black momma.
The conservative elites in Germany, and the conservative elites in America, did not relish their respective rightwing baboons, Hitler and Trump. In both Germany and America, conservative elites considered both Hitler and Trump boorish, ill-mannered, hysterical, insane and surprisingly boring. Indeed, if you listen to Trump, you will find that he isn’t any more interesting that Archie Bunker. He just voices Bunker’s bigotry with a little more telegenic belligerence, as if he snorts five lines of coke before he goes in front of the cameras.
Nevertheless, the conservative elites in Germany supported Hitler, even though they saw him as bestial, boorish vulgarity personified, because he would bash the Communists and trade unionists. Likewise, Republican party elites supported Trump, even though he sounded like trailer park trash smoking crack, because he would smash the blacks, the left and because they were terrified of the yokels of the American lower middle class.
Also, Trump and Hitler were very similar because they both ditched their slightly left of center proposals made at the outset of their campaigns, and they both resolved their ideological confusion by adopting staunchly rightwing economic policies.
Hitler, at the outset, included, among his supporters, the SA. This organization was like other Nazis insofar as they hated Jews, communists and Russians and glorified war. However, they differed from other Nazis in that they harbored hatred for the rich and wanted to effect an almost Marxian distribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Hence, they were called the “beefsteak” Nazis because in their core they were as red as communists.
However, Hitler finally decided to cast his lot with German industrialists and financial tycoons, and on June 30, 1934, in what later came to be called “The Night of Long Knives,” he killed a few thousand leaders of the SA.
Similarly, Trump, at the outset of his 2016 campaign, made some speeches and comments which, in a few ways, sounded somewhat left of center. For example, he said that he would raise social security benefits. However, as the campaign proceeded, he quickly forgot his fleeting interest in liberal economic reforms, and he became a conventional conservative on economics.
Finally, consider the evidence culled from a divorce trial of Donald Trump. His ex-wife testified that next to his bed he kept a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and that Mein Kampf was his bedtime reading.
I am sure someone will say that my allegations are over the top and alarmist. Someone will try to rebut my allegations by saying that Trump did not infect America with the terror of gas chambers.
Of course, quantitatively Trump is no Hitler. He did not kill and torture an infinitesimal fraction of the numbers wasted by the Third Reich.
However, qualitatively he was very much the same as Hitler. Given the time and the right circumstances, he would not have recoiled from committing an onslaught of the most devilish crimes.
Just remember what he said in the Spring of 2016: I can kill, at random, people walking on 5th Avenue and my supporters will still love me.
What sort of politician talks like this? For Christ’s sake, next to Trump, Richard Nixon sounded like Saint Francis of Assisi.
Trump was the second coming of Adolf Hitler, and the Republican mice who did his bidding are as bad as the Germans who screamed “Heil Hitler” like a pack of rabid rats.
Footnote 1: Assault weapons are weapons of war, but our corrupt Congress thinks they must be freely sold because of the Second Amendment’s alleged avowal of an unqualified right to bear arms.
Ergo, since Congress believes that weapons of war can be freely sold, when are they going to let me buy atom bombs.
This is one of my favorite rock songs about blowing things up (We ought to let the right wing know that plenty of us lefties are quite interested in blowing them up.):
The Dark Details of Trump’s Coup d'etat that have yet to be Explained
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