A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
In this case, legal experts say the US Attorney General office is at play. Therefore besides calling it a Coup d'état the word putsch may also apply. In its native Swiss German, putsch originally meant "knock" or "thrust," but these days both German and English speakers use it to refer to the kind of slow motion government overthrow also known as a coup d'état.
Putsch debuted in English shortly before the tumultuous Kapp Putsch of 1920, in which the right-wing supporters of Adolf Hitler himself even attempted a putsch, but he ultimately gained control of the German government via other means.
A few things about Matthew Whitaker. As the newly appointed acting attorney general, Whitaker said he would not recuse himself from the Russia investigation, as Sessions did, much to Trump’s chagrin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-acting-at…
Mr. Whitaker called the courts the inferior branch of government and criticized the power of SCOTUS to shape public policy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/politics/matthew-whitaker-courts-…
Whitaker’s appointment might possibly be illegal https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-jeff-sessi…
Mathew Whitaker sat on an advisory board of a company that was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of scamming customers out of millions of dollars https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/trump-s-acting-ag-ad…
This 2014 interview of Trump’s acting attorney general is beyond belief http://bit.ly/2PiyMr4
Matthew Whitaker’s plan to get noticed as a Trump defender worked out better than expected. How Whitaker transformed from conservative pundit to acting attorney general https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-08/trump-s-top-lawman-c…
Trump’s new acting attorney general has long criticized the Russia probe https://wapo.st/2Dturej
The new attorney general promoted hot tubs for a scam company that got shut down by the FTC: https://slate.trib.al/an4VnfW
New acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has called Mueller's appointment "ridiculous" and "a little fishy" https://cnn.it/2QxiWoL
Acting Attorney General Had Ties to Company Fined Millions for Scams https://nyti.ms/2D8SkGY via @nytvideo
Whitaker’s friendship with Trump aide reignites recusal debate https://reut.rs/2QpB43Y
Listen: Trump's acting attorney general said the president can kill any investigation he wants https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/acting-attorney-general-ma… …
