Opinion: Impeachment is a ‘coup’? Trump and Giuliani flunk civics class (via latimesopinion)
Not for the first time in his tenure, President Trump is accusing his critics of trying to stage a coup.
He’s not alone on this; some of his supporters have floated the “coup” idea on Fox News and other sympathetic media outlets, to attack the legitimacy of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation and now the impeachment inquiry soft-launched by House Democrats in the wake of a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s July 25 call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.....
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