On his July 21, 2025 episode of Real Coffee, Scott Adams argued that recent revelations confirm a years-long, coordinated effort by Democratic leaders and intelligence officials to illegitimately remove Donald Trump from power—a campaign he says involved at least six organized attempts to “overthrow the government.”
If Adams’ characterizations are accurate, these actions could potentially rise to serious federal crimes, including conspiracy against rights, seditious conspiracy, racketeering (RICO), obstruction of justice, fraud against the United States, incitement, and making false statements to federal officials.
1. The Russia Collusion Scheme – Courtesy of Obama
Adams claims newly surfaced documentation shows Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Susan Rice were involved in a coordinated effort to promote the Russia collusion hoax as a means of undermining Donald Trump’s presidency. He argues that this was not a misunderstanding but a multi-year deception to delegitimize an elected president.
2. Two “Fake” Impeachments – Purposeful Lies
Both impeachment trials of Trump are framed as illegitimate power plays, not legal proceedings. Adams contends they were strategic efforts to remove Trump through non-democratic means, amounting to further attempted “coups.”
3. Post-Presidency Lawfare – Requires Criminal Investigation
Adams criticizes the ongoing legal challenges Trump faces as unprecedented “lawfare” meant to damage him politically. Though he once warned against retaliatory prosecution, Adams now argues Trump has a moral and legal right to respond in kind.
4. Incendiary Rhetoric – Purposeful Assassination Fodder
Calling Trump “Hitler” Knowingly Creates Kill or Be Killed Climate
Adams draws a direct line between Democratic rhetoric and the recent assassination attempt on Trump, claiming years of demonization justified violence in the mind of the would-be assassin. Even without direct collusion, he says Democrats knowingly fostered a climate ripe for political violence. I would add that the clown show of security on that day looks more like intentional sabotage than gross stupidity, but that’s harder to prove.
5. The “Fine People” Hoax – A Coordinated RICO Scheme
Adams revisits the claim that Trump called white supremacists “fine people,” labeling it a deliberate media distortion. He argues that media and political actors ran with a known falsehood to sway voters and affect the 2020 election outcome, calling it a coordinated disinformation campaign.
6. The Flynn Case – A Turning Point in Deep State Corruption
The treatment of General Michael Flynn is seen by Adams as one more example of deep-state corruption. While once hesitant, Adams now believes criminal prosecutions are warranted for those involved, even if political realities may prevent it from happening.
Conclusion: Dems Crossed the Line and Retaliatory Investigations are Justice
Scott Adams closes by reiterating his belief that the threshold for prosecution has been crossed. While once concerned about tit-for-tat political retribution, he argues that Democrats have already broken the norm—and that Trump now has a “free punch” to restore balance and accountability.
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(31:10) This is the week that the uh Democrats and Tulsi Gabbard are or the Republicans and Tulsi Gabbard are all talking about how now the documentation has proven that Obama and Brennan and Clapper and Susan Rice were all part of a multi-year plan to act as though Russia had been helping Trump or at least you know or maybe colluding with there was no evidence of that.
(31:45) Um, and that it was an attempt to run a gigantic hoax that would overthrow the government of the United States. And apparently there must be some laws that were broken by that. It seems like it. I don’t know which ones. But my uh my old feeling that you can’t just act like you’re going to arrest the old president.
(32:12) That would be the worst thing in the world. But the reason I would be opposed to that was that I wouldn’t want it to escalate and I wouldn’t want the other side once they got in power to do the same thing. However, apparently they’ve already what we know is that they tried to overthrow the country several times. So, here are just a few of the things they’ve done.
(32:44) So, of course, there was the uh Russia collusion hoax, which at this point is well documented to have been a Hillary Clinton Obama administration hoax. And that was definitely to overthrow the country. And then there were two what I would call fake impeachments against Trump during his first term. The purpose of which is to change the government. Now those didn’t work out, but they were also attempts to overthrow the government through illegitimate means.
(33:15) That would be three coup attempts. Then there was all the lawfare when Trump was out of office. The the lawfare was so far over the line of not appropriate that under normal circumstances, I would say no, you can’t lawfare them back, it’ll just keep escalating. We don’t want that.
(33:40) But given that they pulled out all of the stops to go after Trump, I I think he has a free punch. I think Trump has every moral and ethical and probably legal standing to arrest a lot of Democrats. And I’m only recently coming to this opinion cuz even though I think they did bad things, I didn’t think they were so bad necessarily that they needed to go to jail cuz it it still felt like it was, you know, in that weasly, you know, political realm as opposed to criminal. But it does look completely criminal at this point.
(34:18) I mean, there were so many things they did. There are questions about the assassination attempt against Trump. Now, there may not be any direct, you know, coordination of somebody working with the assassin, but don’t you think the only reason that Trump was targeted is that the Democrats have been calling him Hitler for years? Of course.
(34:43) Why? Why do they call him Hitler for years? So that there’s no limit to what people are willing to do to get rid of Hitler. That’s why they do it. Did it work? Well, almost. If Trump had not turned his head, um then all of that calling him Hitler would have resulted in his death. Exactly like um Republicans have been warning for years.
(35:09) If you keep doing this, somebody’s going to get killed almost. So I would say that even if they don’t have a direct smoking gun connection to the assassin that the Democrats created the situation where somebody would want to do that and they were fully aware that they were doing that creating that situation.
(35:34) So I would say that’s uh one, two, three, four, five, five um attempts to overthrow the government, Trump government. And then I would add to that the fine people hoax. The fine people hoax um was known to be a hoax. They obviously knew it wasn’t real. uh Biden ran on it and that was an attempt to overthrow the government. Now, of course, there’s lots of, you know, lying and hyperbole on both sides in um when it comes to uh politics, but the fine people hoax was really different because it was so obvious that it wasn’t true if you just watched the whole video. And the entire news world,
(36:24) the at least the left-leaning news, which was the mainstream news at the time, they all supported it as being true. Now, if you took away the fact that the mainstream media was supporting it as true, it would just be politicians saying, you know, BS and we don’t take them too seriously.
(36:47) But once the entire media is behind it, then it’s a RICO situation. So, by my count, one, two, three, four, five, six, uh, six direct attempts to overthrow the government. Do I think that? And then, you know, look what they did to Mike Flynn. That ought to be illegal. That ought to be really illegal. And you know, General Flynn is uh very adamant that people need to go to jail for what they did to not just him, but tried to do to Trump.
(37:25) And again, I was reluctant I was reluctant to say that jail is the right solution, but I’m all in on jail now. Um I believe that probably several people need to be put in jail for a long time. I don’t know that it will happen because we don’t live in a world where that sort of thing can easily happen, but I do believe that the uh that the enough bad behavior warrants it.