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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-coup-media_n_64505256e4b039ec4e867f2d
Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was

Donald Trump once famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Manhattan’s Fifth venue and not lose any supporters.

What he didn’t mention was how quickly the news media would pretend like it never even happened.
Instead, we’d focus on the latest juicy tidbits of who was in and who was out among the Mar-a-Lago crowd. We’d write features about how his old crew had migrated to South Florida with him and how the state itself had become “Trump-ified” in his image. And we’d scramble over each other for “scoops,” such as who is about to endorse him, or when and where his next rally would be, with the hope of winning an invitation aboard his private jetliner.

How do I know this?
Because we’re doing it right now. Donald Trump is the only president who used the threat of violence and then actual violence in an attempt to remain in power — the very definition of a coup. It was the singular unique act of his tenure, truly historic. In 232 years of elections, no other president had done anything remotely close to what Trump did.

Failing to mention Jan. 6 in a story about Trump is akin to writing about Neil Armstrong without mentioning the moon landing or about Jeffrey Dahmer without bringing up cannibalism.

All of which makes the use of that word, “coup,” critically important.
While many outlets did use it during the Jan. 6 hearings last summer, with the evidence of Trump’s behavior getting plenty of airtime, you almost never see it now that Trump is actively seeking the White House again.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-rape-trial-defense-accuser-110000042.html
Trump's rape trial defense? His accuser and her friends have Trump Derangement Syndrome

This week, lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who says Donald Trump raped her in the spring of 1996, rested their case in the battery and defamation trial that has gripped a lower Manhattan federal courtroom for seven days.

Over the course of the trial, jurors heard searing testimony from Carroll herself, as well as the accounts of two friends whom she confided in shortly after the alleged rape and two other sexual assault accusers who say their experiences with Trump resembled Carroll's. The only appearance Trump made came in the form of a deposition video where the former president disparages Carroll.

Just moments later, Trump's lawyers rested their case as well, without presenting any evidence.

Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina said from the start that the former president's legal team wouldn't bring any witnesses in front of the jury. The entire case, he told jurors in his opening statement, would come out in the cross-examination of Carroll and the witnesses her lawyers put on the stand.

With the testimony concluding on Thursday, and closing arguments to begin on Monday — unless Trump makes a surprise personal appearance — we now know what that defense looks like.

Carroll and her friends, Trump's lawyers suggest, all have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Trump denies raping Carroll. And while her allegations have provoked his fury, he hasn't deigned to show up to the trial happening now in Manhattan federal court.