Hey, everyone, listen to the podcast. This is Ari Melbert, and I have something very special today.

I want to read a little bit to you from a new piece that I've written about the coup conspiracy.

This is, as you may have heard me mention, the forward to the Harper-Collins edition of the January 6th report,

and that's coming out. And here is as a podcast extra, something very different.

I'm just going to read to you some of what I wrote.

If you're interested, you can go get the entire piece from Harper Collins on Amazon.

You can just go to Amazon and search Melburgh, January 6th, or go to melburghbook.com.

You can get this piece in the whole January 6th report.

But in case you want to hear some of it, whether or not you ultimately read or buy the whole thing,

I wanted to share that with you. This is my foreword to the January 6th report by Ari Melburgh.

They attempted a coup.

That's the most important fact about what happened.

Donald Trump led an effort to overthrow the lawful government of the United States.

He lost an election, exhausted the legal options to challenge it, and then tried to stop

the peaceful transfer of power to the incoming administration of the president-elect.

The goal was illicit, stealing an election.

Trump's chosen methods were unlawful, trying to overcome his loss with fraud, obstruction,

election meddling, abuse of power by government officials, and even plans to have the military intercede.

Trump himself did not always act.

He often demanded other people break the law.

Sometimes that worked.

He got people to commit crimes.

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