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'Whistleblower' Attorney Mark S. Zaid Tweeted: 'Coup Has Started' | Breitbart

posted onNovember 7, 2019
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Article snippet: Zaid was referring to the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to defend President Trump’s executive order barring travel to the U.S. from terror-prone countries that had been identified as such under the Obama administration. Yates later claimed that there was no constitutional basis for defending the order in court, but the order (later amended twice) was upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court due to the president’s wide prerogatives over immigration. Fox News reported Zaid’s tweet Wednesday, which drew attention to his long, extreme anti-Trump Twitter history. Yates was at the center of a network of “Deep State” operatives committed to bringing down President Trump — what Breitbart News called, the same day as Zaid posted his tweet, the “coup of the bureaucrats.” The so-called “whistleblower” is a CIA operative, identified by RealClearInvestigations as Eric Ciaramella, who not only worked with former Vice President Joe Biden but also interacted with one of the key Democratic operatives responsible for bringing Ukraine into the 2016 election and crafting the false “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory. As Breitbart News’ Aaron Klein has reported: In addition, Klein has reported, Zaid’s firm offered discounted rates for whistleblowers seeking legal representation — in return for providing dirt on the Trump administration. President Trump has taken to calling the impeachment effort a “coup” attempt — using rhetoric that left-wing critics have calle... Link to the full article to read more

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