{"id":11668,"date":"2019-02-19T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2019-02-19T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:53:02","slug":"autopsy-of-a-dead-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/autopsy-of-a-dead-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy of a Dead Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign\u2019s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier&nbsp;<em>failed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency&nbsp;<em>failed<\/em>. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preparing the Battlefield<br><\/strong>No palace coup can take place without the perception of popular anger at a president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deep state is by nature cowardly. It does not move unless it feels it can disguise its subterranean efforts or that, if revealed, those efforts will be seen as popular and necessary\u2014as expressed in tell-all book titles such as fired FBI Directors James Comey\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Higher Loyalty<\/em>&nbsp;or in disgraced Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe\u2019s psychodramatic&nbsp;<em>The Threat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/02\/17\/autopsy-of-a-dead-coup\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign\u2019s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier&nbsp;failed. So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1091,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-32c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9665,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/assessing-the-obama-legacy-against-his-own-mileposts\/","url_meta":{"origin":11668,"position":0},"title":"Assessing the Obama Legacy\u2014Against His Own Mileposts","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The president\u2019s stated priorities have not turned out well. 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