The Week cover "The Failed Coup"

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

25. The tinpot general uniform is an important touch.

Trump's going to pardon lots of his stooges and henchmen. Why did he single out Mike Flynn to pardon early?

From that act, plus after the election his firing the SecDef and Pentagon deputies and replacing them with even more loyal loyalists, I can only conclude Trump was setting up to make his coup attempt literally a military one, if he worked up the nerve to actually try it.

He'd have fired his Army Chief of Staff, or maybe the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replaced him with the newly pardoned Flynn waiting in the wings.

Notice that post-election Flynn endorsed another loon's call for military takeover of the election result and the military completely re-running it under the control of the military's commander-in-chief... i.e., Trump himself.

Thankfully Cadet Bonespurs chickened out on that idea.

But he did make preparatory moves to set himself up to try.