# It wasn’t a coup **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407 "2021-01-13T05:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 699
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407/699 "2021-02-02T16:37:23Z")
The NYTimes take on that meeting was a little more restained: > [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/1301): > > I just saw a few interesting things mentioned in this article in the NYT (sorry, it is paywalled) - [Trump Discussed Naming Sidney Powell as Special Counsel on Election Fraud](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-voter-fraud.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage) Interesting parts of the article include: President Trump on Friday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud, according to two people brie… (I’m citing a post because it quotes the salient parts typically hidden behind the NYT paywall.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407)._