[Free Beacon] A New Yorker article warned Friday that White House chief of staff John Kelly's press briefing on Thursday could have been a "preview" of what an eventual military coup in the U.S. might look like.
"Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup," began Masha Gessen, a Russian journalist and an outspoke critic of Vladimir Putin. "You don't have to strain your imagination‐all you have to do is watch Thursday's White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump's phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson."
"The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments," she continued.
Gessen wrote that Kelly's four arguments were: |