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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > If the US deep state attempted a coup against Trump, what would happen?
 
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Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Gail Wynand posted:

Your scenario of debilitating leaks is the most likely one assuming Trump doesn't attempt a purge. I could see an attempt at his own personal Night of the Long Knives (with fewer corpses and more arrests/firings) triggering a coup. Conway has already suggested a purge of the IC is planned.

All Trump has to do is fire every civilian DoD/IC employee in a management pay grade who isn't 100% politically reliable, and arrest the ones he has even slightly incriminating material on to send a message.

Yes, there are civil service protections, but they are looser the higher you go up the ladder and as the President he can override most of them. He'll want to do it fast, overnight on a Saturday on a winter holiday weekend is best. Or better yet, at 4am Inauguration morning.

you keep assuming trump is competent

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Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

I'm sure Trump just bumbled backwards from his part-time reality show career into the Presidency 90s goofball comedy style

it's just....watching and listening to everything trump said and did this election doesn't speak to his competence. It speaks to how poo poo the democrats were.

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