Ask yourself a question, with generals like Milley and VPs like Pence, how many would have followed his lawful orders? Remember, Trump in his last days also had to fire a general who wanted to stay in Afghanistan. In his last year he also had to fire a Navy Admiral who wanted to go after that Navy Seal (Gallager I belive his name was) that Trump had specifically told him not to prosecute and whom he later pardoned.
The military brass wanted him gone. Like in every coup, both sides calculate who is on their side and who is against him. Trump knew he couldn't pull it off.
Before anyone says I'm some Q supporter or TDW fan club member on hopium, I'm not. And if you're coming here to say Trump was all an elaborate ploy or ruse by the deep state, you're brain dead.
Lock us down for 4-5 years, completely destroy the economy. Vaccine + passports + contact tracing on our gov supplied iphone 17+ all released and mandated simultaneously. Quarantine camps for the non compliant. Your neighbor would be happy to turn you in by then. End of Killary second term. The vaccine was ready to go, but she would have been celebrated for creating it in only 4ish years.
Military would have never been rebuilt, wall never built. Immigration at its current level but instead of 2021 it would have been '17 - '24. Employment levels right around where we were for 15 days to flatten the curve. For multiple years.
Most would have been worn down enough to cave at that point. Imagine how much pro vax propaganda they could have pushed out in another 4 years before it's release. Oh and no EUA, we're talking full FDA approval. So mandates would be legal.