Tag: 2020 elections

Where Things Stand: Hate When One Coup Gets In The Way Of My Other Coup

This is your TPM evening briefing.

By Nicole Lafond | January 4, 2022 6:15 p.m.

Thanks to Peter Navarro’s new memoir, we now have a first-person account of just how President Trump and his closest friends planned to do a coup on Jan. 6.

But it’s not, Navarro claims, the one we saw violently come into fruition.

TPM detailed some of the latest reports on Navarro’s new book as well as recent interviews with the former White House trade adviser here. But a reasonable conclusion to draw about the purpose of Navarro’s latest press tour is a relatively simple one: He’s attempting to signal that Trump and his team couldn’t possibly be blamed for the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection because that attack actually scuttled their plans for a different, friendlier coup.

Nothing To See Here: McConnell Claims State Legislatures Would Never Overturn Elections

By Matt Shuham | January 4, 2022 4:09 p.m.

Facebook Hosted Surge Of Misinformation And Insurrection Threats In Months Leading Up To Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

By Craig Silverman, Craig Timberg, Jeff Kao and Jeremy B. Merrill | January 4, 2022 12:02 p.m.

Why Did The Jan. 6 Organizers Want To Rally Outside SCOTUS?

The Jan. 6 planners had plenty of reason to pressure the Supreme Court.

By Josh Kovensky | December 28, 2021 1:24 p.m.

Crisis of Command

By David Kurtz | December 23, 2021 10:17 a.m.

I want to expand on what I mentioned in Morning Memo about some really good work from the Just Security guys on better understanding the delay in the deployment of the National Guard.

From the get-go, TPM’s coverage has been more circumspect about the decision to involve the military in the response to the attack.

Why?