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Polybius

(19,995 posts)
Sun May 25, 2025, 09:18 PM Sunday

Al Green suggests military coup coming under Trump, refuses to pivot from attacks

Source: MSN

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) attempted to justify his efforts to impeach President Donald Trump for the third time by implying the president may carry out a military coup with tanks “rolling down the streets of American cities.”

Green sparked controversy in March and was censured by Congress after he waved his cane and yelled at Trump during the president’s joint address to legislators. The Texas lawmaker’s latest comments to Newsweek defy warnings from Democratic colleagues to step back from provocative actions and inflammatory impeachment talk and instead focus on policy.

"You don't wait [to start impeachment efforts] until tanks are rolling down the streets of American cities," Green told the outlet. "It's too late then. You don't wait until you have what everybody will recognize as a constitutional crisis, because that can be the forerunner to tanks moving down the streets of American cities.”

“We have this unique opportunity to use impeachment as a deterrent to stop him and prevent what could become more than we have seen in this country in terms of power emanating from a presidency that is out of control,” he added.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/al-green-suggests-military-coup-coming-under-trump-refuses-to-pivot-from-attacks/ar-AA1F0zTX?ocid=UE07DHP

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usonian

(17,848 posts)
4. I'm no psychic. I just connect the dots.
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:32 PM
Sunday

So this time, the psychics agree with me. Wow.

But in any event, the goal of the bastards is to go unaccounted for.

Anything that calls serious attention to their ongoing crimes is great. It’s telling truth to power.

What can criminals get away with? Everything that is not called out, and for which they are not held accountable.

Forewarned is better than fore-armed. It undercuts the “secret” plan entirely.

People think that others are as blind, indoctrinated and short-sighted as they are. Frickin cult.

Bayard

(25,225 posts)
5. I agree with Rep. Green
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:36 PM
Sunday

You don't let a senior citizen with dementia play with nuclear weapons.

Cha

(311,136 posts)
6. I've had similar thoughts as Rep Al Green..
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:38 PM
Sunday

TY & Al Green For Speaking OUT! No Kings Hands Off! 💙🌈

alfredo

(60,180 posts)
14. Trump's military parade will be a cover for the coup. It 's like the military parade in Egypt
Mon May 26, 2025, 12:14 AM
Yesterday

when Sadat was assassinated.

LudwigPastorius

(12,509 posts)
15. Trump would have to find more than a couple of like-minded generals to pull that off.
Mon May 26, 2025, 12:35 AM
Yesterday

A coup must have a strategy...a plan...timing, and Trump is breathtakingly incompetent.

Trump couldn't organize a two man circle jerk.

MichMan

(15,181 posts)
17. Why would someone willing to stage a military coup be deterred by an impeachment vote? n/t
Mon May 26, 2025, 07:54 AM
Yesterday
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