A Coup Timeline

For John, BLUF:  It is useful to review, from time to time, the timeline of the efforts to turn out Donald J Trump.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The curious timeline for taking down Trump

From The Hill, by Ms Sharyl Attkisson, 8 November 2019.

Here is the lede plus four:

It’s three full years since President Trump was elected.

Among those who predicted he could never win the election — or that he might have been conspiring with Hillary Clinton all along, worked for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, would crash the U.S. stock market his first week in office, would ban all Muslims, would send illegal immigrants home en masse on buses and trains, and would start a nuclear war — there have been real concerns.

But to others, there are different concerns that have borne out.  We continue to get evidence of an orchestrated effort among government insiders and the well-connected to take down President Trump at all costs.  The public evidence indicates that the effort was hatched even before he took office.

Trump critics would argue that there was good reason to devise plots against him before he was inaugurated.  His supporters would argue that the opposition has crossed the line into unlawful actions involving wiretapping and attempts to frame Trump and his associates.

In any event, we can build an oversimplified timeline to make the point:

And then follows the Impeachment timeline, at least per Ms Attkisson.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff