On the Biden Coup, the Post and the Times Disagree

Ya gotta love it.

Here is this headline from that bastion of Establishment liberalism in the nation’s capital — the Washington Post.

With false ‘coup’ claims, Trump primes supporters to challenge a Harris win

Amid a tight presidential race, Donald Trump has tried to delegitimize Kamala Harris’s nomination and undermine confidence in this year’s election.

In this gem, Post reporters Colby Itkowitz and Hannah Allam write:

From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at the Republican convention in July, Trump is now casting the upcoming election as “rigged” against him and baselessly labeling any hurdle in his path as election interference.

“This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.

Well now.

Reporters Itkowitz and Allam write:

Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used in the 2020 campaign and indicate how he could again seek to delegitimize the results if he loses, setting the stage for another combustible fight over the presidency, election, and national security experts said.

“They forced him out. It was a coup. We had a coup,” Trump said of Biden at an Aug. 9 rally in Bozeman, Mont. “That was the first coup of the history of our country, and it was very successful.”

Got all that? According to the Post there was no coup from Democrat elites that forced Joe Biden out of his run for re-election. For Trump to say so is “baseless,” an attempt to “undermine confidence in this year’s election” and “delegitimize the results if he loses.”

But wait! Here’s what the New York Times’ venerable liberal, Trump-hating columnist Maureen Dowd headlines over there of the Biden withdrawal:

The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup.

Ms. Dowd writes:

Top Democrats are bristling with resentments even as they are about to try to put on a united front at the United Center in the Windy City.

A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race.

It wasn’t exactly “Julius Caesar” in Rehoboth Beach. But it was a tectonic shift and, of course, there were going to be serious reverberations. Even though it was the right thing to do, because Joe Biden was not going to be able to campaign, much less serve as president for another four years, in a fully vital way, it was a jaw-dropping putsch….

Biden went from looking “forward to getting back on the campaign trail” to gone in one weekend, with the handprints of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on the president’s back….

Party leaders whitewashed the coup by ornately extolling Biden…. Despite the grandiose flattery, Joe, Jill and Hunter were not fooled or appeased….

Those who pushed out Biden should be proud. They saved him and their party from a likely crushing defeat, letting Trump snake back in and soil democracy.”

So.

According to the Washington Post, Trump’s charges are “false ‘coup’ claims.” There was no coup, says the Post. None. It’s all Trump election interference lies.

But over in the New York Times, there is liberal Maureen Dowd making it crystal clear, headlining:

The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup.

And saying:

A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race.

It is rare that I would agree with the the New York Times in this space. But in this case, Times columnist Dowd has nailed it exactly — and the Washington Post’s reporters are trying — with no success —  to hide the obvious:

Yes, this was a coup executed by Democrat elites to get rid of an aging, weak president they were convinced was going to lose to Trump. So they maneuvered to get him out. Joe knows it. The Biden family knows it. And the coup plotters know it.

Alas for Kamala Harris and company, the rest of America knows it as well.

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