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Top Bipartisan Leaders Planned Possible Secession from the US as Failsafe From Trump Coup
In August of 2020, as America toppled into a divisive and dangerous election cycle pitting firebrand Republican Donald J. Trump against Democratic candidate Joe Biden, a bipartisan group of more than 100 current and former senior government leaders quietly organized and circulated a shocking a manifesto that hypothesized various options if the consequences of the election, provoked by Trump’s rhetoric, spiraled into chaos.
In a surprisingly prescient 22-page report, the authors, having spent 5 years researching and assessing the increasingly hostile political climate while witnessing the grooming of millions into radicalized servitude to the ex-television host with a terrifying and unpredictable nature, a candidate who even his colleagues in politics classified as a power mad demagogue with an alarming stronghold on a significant swath of middle and southern America, recognized that we were approaching a crossroads that could change the shape of the Nation forever.
“We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November’s elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape. We also assess that the President Trump is likely to contest the…