Trump Indicted For Attempted Coup

Trying To Overturn 2020 Presidential Election Results

Complete Indictment here:

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Indictment includes six co-conspirators

The indictment lists six co-conspirators but does not name them. They are:

• Co-Conspirator 1: An attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.
• Co-Conspirator 2: An attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.
• Co-Conspirator 3: An attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded “crazy.” Nonetheless, the Defendant embraced and publicly amplified Co-Conspirator 3’s disinformation.
• Co-Conspirator 4: A Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.
• Co-Conspirator 5: An attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.
• Co-Conspirator 6: A political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.

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Co-Conspirator 1 is former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Co-Conspirator 2 is former Trump lawyer John Eastman.

Co-Conspirator 3 is former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.

Co-Conspirator 4 is former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark.

Co-Conspirator 5 is pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro.

Co-Conspirator 6, identity of Co-Conspirator 6 is unknown at this time – – –

The indictment says about #6: “a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.” The indictment also further ties this person to the fake elector slate in Pennsylvania.

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Related reading:

A new documentary takes a deep dive into the historic and current fascination with Hitler and Nazism, displaying for us what it means for the future of democracy as a model of cultural and political influence.

Directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, The Meaning of Hitler explores the perilous love affair Americans, among others, have with the dictator responsible for the death of more than 20 million human beings.

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Related reading:

Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what became known as the Beer Hall Putsch*.

The Austrian-born little man had enlisted in the German army, serving during WW1 rising to the rank of corporal but told he would likely go no further because he lacked the necessary character to be a leader.

When the war ended, the man insisted to anyone who would listen that his army superiors were wrong about him and in fact that it was he who knew more about leadership and the military than the generals.

He brought this insistence to the Munich beer hall where, with the help of a few followers, he pushed his way to a co-leadership position in a small(ish) movement towards a coup against the German government.

The coup failed and the odd little man was tried and convicted. He was sentenced to just five years for his role but even more shocking served only eight and a half months.

Upon release from prison (and not deported), the little man was still pissed about being told he wasn’t a leader and promised to make those who had questioned his capabilities wrong.

On 30 January 1933, the little man, Adolph Hitler, became Hitler, The Fuhrer; Leader of the Nazi Party, Leader of Germany.

*The Beer Hall Putsch, or coup, took place in one of the many beer hall cellars in November, 1923, in Munich, a stronghold of right-wing German conservative movements. The meeting was intended to plan a coup to separate Bavaria from Germany but that was not Hitler’s goal, he insisted on a total national revolution.

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Additional reading:

Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics. William Carr. Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd, London, 1978, 1984.

The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience Of A Single German Town 1922-1945. William Sheridan Allen. Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1965, 1984.

A History of the Weimar Republic: From the Collapse of the Empire to Hindenburg’s Election / Vol.1. ATHENEUM, New York, 1970.

Hitler. Ian Kershaw. Longman Group UK Limited, England, 1991.