Raskin: Wake Up Americans — This Is
a ‘Rapidly Expanding and Accelerating Coup’
Posted By: sagman, 2/8/2025 2:38:48 PM
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out” that Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were conducting a “rapidly expanding and accelerating coup.” Raskin said, “If the courts move with dispatch, they might be able to prevent a lot of damage from being inflicted. But nobody should normalize what’s going on here. We’ve got the wealthiest man in the world who cannot be president because he was born in apartheid South Africa and then made his way to Canada and then to America because he can’t be president, except if he can buy himself a de facto presidency . . .
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for Violence As He Spreads Rabid Misinformation
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Rich, oh so rich. This boob is claiming Trump and Musk are leading a coup against the unelected bureaucrats who have been spending America into oblivion without oversight, without accountability until now. I mean, can he really believe what he's saying? Well, yes. Dems are unmoored from reality these days.