Could Trump Be ‘Reinstated’ as President in August 2021?

On June 1, 2021, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that former President Donald “Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August,” adding that this “isn’t how it works.”

The Trump reporting came amid former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn’s apparent endorsement (though he claims his words were “twisted”) of a Myanmar-style coup that would bring Trump back to power. Trump’s purported belief requires one not only to buy into the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, but also to disregard...