Peter Navarro
Where Things Stand: Hate When One Coup Gets In The Way Of My Other Coup
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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.
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The President Had Help Inspiring A Would-Be Coup 
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