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Trump is seething with anger and resentment at having been officially exposed as a sexual predator, a fraud, a coup plotter and a thief.

The fact most of the coup plotters were from south-eastern Nigeria meant the coup became known as an "Igbo coup" - a label Babangida rejects.

What to make, then, of a movie that puts Bonhoeffer in the room with assassination plotters or asking British clergy to smuggle in explosives?

According to the statement, the plotters had not just planned to assassinate the president-elect and the vice-president-elect but also wanted to arrest and execute a member of the Supreme Court once their coup was successful.

“In dark corners of the internet, talk is cheap. Sorting the real plotters from armchair extremists is an exacting task,” he told reporters.