Former POTUS Donald Trump has reportedly told people he will be "reinstated" as president by August.
The 74-year-old Republican lost the 2020 US presidential election in November - but despite this, the ousted leader supposedly intends to take power once more.
The story arose from a CNN report about Trump's original National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Flynn supposedly said that a Myanmar-style coup "should happen" in the US.
On Tuesday, CNN respondent Donnie O'Sullivan shared the report on Twitter, accompanying the report with the caption: "Talk of a Myanmar-style coup in the United States has been popular among some Trump supporters and QAnon believers for months."
Later, a journalist from The New York Times, Maggie Haberman, weighed in on the CNN report in which several Trump supporters showed support for the ex-president's reinstatement via a Myanmar-style coup.
Haberman claimed that the former TV host has been going out of his way to tell people that he believes he will be back in office by August.
She wrote on Twitter: "Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn't how it works but simply sharing the information)."
The journalist wrote in a follow-up tweet: "It isn’t happening in a vacuum. It is happening as he faced the possibility of an indictment from the Manhattan DA."
She added: "But he is not putting out statements about the 'audits' in states just for the sake of it. He’s been laser-focused on them, according to several people who’ve spoken with him (as well as WaPo reporting a few weeks ago)."
When Trump lost the 2020 US Presidential election, he continuously challenged what he felt was a fraudulent outcome.
He espoused a number of unfounded claims of voter fraud and insisted that he - rather than Democrat Joe Biden - was the rightful president of the United States.
Even before he won the 2016 US Presidential election, taking over from Barack Obama, Trump had bemoaned the electoral process, supposedly believing it to be unfair on him.
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