May 28, 2019
When Barack Obama declared war on Donald Trump
By Mark A. Hewitt
The latest round of navel-gazing is the effort to name what has happened to President Donald Trump. It is a hoax or is it a coup, and when did it start?
I am a 2003 graduate of the Naval War College. We studied "war." What happened to Donald Trump was an act of war.
"War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will" (Clausewitz: On War).
President Barack Obama marshaled secret government resources across the intelligence and law enforcement communities and declared war on the civilian Donald Trump. "Hoax" suggests a humorous or malicious deception. "Coup" suggests a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. President Obama's actions were neither humorous nor malicious but were an egregious abuse of power of the Executive. To say that what happened to President Trump was a coup d'état, an overthrow or a type of revolution, or an illegal and overt seizure by the military or other elites within the state apparatus, isn't adequate, either.
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