Then-CIA director Gina Haspel said the US was 'on the way to a right-wing coup' after Trump lost

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The former CIA director expressed concern that the US was headed toward a right-wing coup after then President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, according to a new book obtained by The Washington Post.

The book, "Peril," by The Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, is set to be released next week and documents the chaotic final months of Trump's presidency and the beginning of Joe Biden's term.

The Post reported that the top officials in the US military and intelligence apparatus were afraid of what Trump might do in his quest to overturn the election results and the effect that his lies about the election could have on his agitated base.

Two of those officials were Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gina Haspel, the CIA director. In one conversation, the book said, Haspel told Milley, "We are on the way to a right-wing coup." It's unclear when during the transition period the conversation took place, but it came as Trump and his loyalists were pushing the lie that the election had been "rigged" and stolen from him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/then-cia-director-gina-haspel-192920026.html

[Snackshack]

1. We still are on our way.

The new voting legislation that GOP controlled states like TX have passed actually allow for the party in control to decide who their electoral votes go to. It doesn’t matter who won the popular vote. In 2024 we could and probably will see swing states that vote for Biden but the GOP controlled legislature in that state will give the electoral votes to the republican candidate potentially giving that candidate the 270 needed to be the next President.

When that happens Democracy is over and we will be living under the dictatorship of a political party. Unfortunately I do not seen a sense of urgency to ensure this does not happen from anyone in congress.

[PortTack]

3. Those laws are being challenged in the courts by the DOJ and others and will not stand

State Election officials CANNOT overturn the popular vote regardless of the laws they have passed. See the 14th and 15th amendments

For updates follow Marc Elias on twitter and democracydocket.com

[Bettie]

4. Do you believe that the RW members of SCOTUS actually care what

the constitution says if it benefits the people who own them? This is what they were put into those seats to do.

[Missn-Hitch]

9. Hear, hear. The danger persists. Stay vigilant and prepared.

[Snackshack]

5. I hope you are right.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. and that's when the blood will run in the streets.

[ShazamIam]

2. Is that the strongest and most honest to date statement we have been given so far?

I has seem kind of obvious for some time now that is kind of what happened in 2016, will that ever be admitted?

[Kid Berwyn]

6. The Constitution is why we're still a democracy.

Gina Haspel and Mark Milley and many millions in public service swear allegiance to it, not to an unstable moron.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Hardliners are good when they steer the straight and narrow

[maxsolomon]

10. Nice of her to say SOMETHING to someone in the last 4 years.

The CIA just sat the entire Trump Presidency out.

"You're on your own, Democracy!"

[spanone]

11. ...and that day when Gina spoke up and exposed the lies and corruption .....oh wait