# It wasn’t a coup **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407 **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:** 858
### 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: [December 21, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407/858 "2022-12-21T15:04:43Z")
Yes. But, as noted, _even 2 months prior_ to January 6th, the signs were there. We literally tracked them here in real time, man. > [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182): > > thinking Trump fired his Secretary of Defense, replaced Esper with Chris Miller. This is a totally normal thing for an outgoing President to prioritize. Esper then says, in an interview in Military Times, that for the George Floyd protests he (Esper) would not support Trump’s desire to invoke the Insurrection Act against the Floyd protesters: [[Google Photos] ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xqbCpACp8jJAxHG6) We know if you’re Donald Trump and you want troops on the streets for a Portland police stat… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407)._