coup d'etat

An army spokesman later announced on national TV that security forces had stopped "an attempted coup d'etat".

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the election fraud allegations "spurious" and said Friday's announcement was "an attempt at a coup d'etat, spearheaded by politically motivated prosecutors".

"He was targeted by this coup d'etat because he was carrying out courageous reforms and because there was a largely ethnic settling of scores and a lot of political cowardice," he said.

In his speech on Tuesday, he said that "calls for a coup d'etat are already being heard", but did not present any evidence of an attempt to remove him.

But we see the broader set of actions by Trump and his allies to subvert the Constitution – the Georgia vote count and fake elector scheme included – as part of a political coup d'etat.