The Right Reacts to Biden’s Withdrawal: It’s a ‘Coup’

Many different right-wing accounts online compared Biden’s resignation to the Capitol riots connected January 6, 2021. “For anyone who inactive believes January 6th was a coup, instrumentality notes. You conscionable witnessed a existent one. July 21st,” the far-right troll relationship End Wokeness wrote successful a station connected X that has been viewed 1.5 cardinal times.

Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added to the conspiracies, claiming, without evidence, that the determination to presumption vice president Kamala Harris arsenic Biden’s apt replacement was rigged. “Many Americans fearfulness that the aforesaid DNC elites are astir to rig the nominating process again to get a monumentally unpopular vice president to measurement into President Biden’s shoes,” Kennedy wrote connected X.

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia went adjacent further, claiming the coup against Biden was orchestrated by the “deep state,” a well-known trope from conspiratorial movements similar QAnon.

“There’s a brushed civilian warfare happening successful the heavy authorities and the elites successful power,” Green wrote connected X. “The Democrats, the IC [intelligence community], and their activists successful the media person been lying to america saying there’s thing incorrect with Biden for years. Next, they commencement a coup against him demanding helium driblet retired of the contention erstwhile they couldn’t fell it anymore.”

Other conspiracy theories besides sprang up, including baseless claims that Biden had been paid to driblet out, was forced to motion his connection by the “deep state,” and that his withdrawal was portion of efforts to screen up who was down the assassination effort connected Trump.

On Truth Social, Trump fueled these conspiracies, claiming, without evidence, “Biden ne'er had Covid. He is simply a menace to Democracy!”

In much than fractional a twelve aggravated posts connected Truth Social, Trump railed against having to restart his run against a antithetic opponent. Reporting implicit the past period has shown that Trump’s run squad has been wholly focused connected beating Biden and are apt not arsenic prepared to combat Harris oregon different Democratic opponents.

Donald Trump Jr. besides pushed conspiracies astir Biden’s withdrawal. “This morning, Joe Biden was moving according to his run co-chair,” helium wrote connected X connected Sunday evening, successful a station that has been viewed 1 cardinal times. “What did they bribe Joe with oregon much apt what did they endanger him with that helium would alteration his caput successful a fewer abbreviated hours and conscionable locomotion away?”

Greene besides claimed that Biden and his household had been bribed to retreat from the race: “The Biden’s [sic] indispensable person gotten the terms they demanded for the statesmanlike room that volition wage the full household for years to come.”

This was an accusation besides repeated by Representative Claudia Tenney from New York, who is co-chair of the Election Integrity Caucus. “Biden’s resignation from the summons apt happened owed to an wrong woody from Democrat puppet masters to the Biden transgression family,” Tenney wrote connected X. “Biden and his household person benefited financially from Biden’s assorted governmental jobs for implicit 50 years. Watch Hunter and Biden get distant with everything successful the adjacent respective months. Watch Jill and Jim proceed the grift.”