FOX News State TV is doing everything it can to rile up real and lasting violence in the United States by constantly referring to the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump as a "coup" and quite often "illegal", and nobody is doing more to create a climate rife with stochastic terrorism than Trump himself.
Considering removing a president from office via procedures outlined in the Constitution is not the same as a coup, defined as a violent overthrow of the government. That hasn’t stopped at least 15 Fox News personalities and guests from calling the House impeachment inquiry a coup since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that an impeachment inquiry would move forward.
President Trump himself has been known to engage in rhetoric about uprisings before. As The Fix’s Eugene Scott wrote, Trump’s Sunday tweet quoting a Fox guest who said impeachment would create a “Civil War like fracture” in the country was a significant escalation of that tendency. By Tuesday, Trump had called the inquiry a “coup” on Twitter.
On his favorite network, the term “coup” has been used with increased frequency. An analysis by the Fix found that Fox News has aired segments of hosts and guests calling the impeachment inquiry of Trump an attempted “coup” each of the 11 days since Pelosi’s announcement.
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The goal here is to make impeachment so bloody that it's never attempted. This is Trump's defense to remain in office: the very real threat of retaliatory violence against Democrats and their voters.
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