Experts explain this violent insurrection wasn t technically a coup
January 11, 2021 9:00AM (UTC) Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police stand guard to keep demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation s capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
America’s Failed Coup, By Wole Olaoye
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Hang in there, America, help is on the way! A delegation of veteran coup makers and bush war specialists will land in Washington soon to dissect the attempted coup staged by losers in the last presidential election and offer expert advise. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (coup in 1979); Idriss Derby of Chad (coup in 1990)…are jetting to the U.S. to teach you how not to stage a coup against the self-proclaimed flagship of democracy.
“I, Brigadier-General Donald J. Trump, on behalf of the megalomaniac forces of the Republican Party hereby decree a suspension of the Constitution of the United States and the annulment of the presidential elections, which returned one Joe Biden as elected.