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The new President is leading a project to overthrow the American state, Mr Moore has claimed, as he called for the world to accept what he sees as Trump’s true aim. Mr Moore was publicly outraged after Trump’s family moved into the White House this month, joining huge protests across the States. Talking about Mr Trump’s decision to appoint Steve Bannon, recent editor of far-right Breitbart News, as a senior advisor, Mr Moore said it is time for the world to wake up. Linking to a New York Times piece about the role of senior advisor, he posted on Twitter: "If you're still trying to convince yourself that a 21st Century coup is not underway, please, please snap out of it."

GETTY Filmmaker Michael Moore said Donald Trump is starting a US coup

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Mr Moore was one of the only famous faces who correctly predicted that Donald Trump would become President. Now, he says the US state is being overthrown by Mr Trump and the people he has appointed to govern alongside him. Mr Bannon’s new role, usually only given to senior generals, will see him take a major role in national security.

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But Mr Moore also posted the link soon after it emerged that the President had fired US attorney general Sally Yates because she had questioned whether the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries was legal and told Justice Department lawyers to stop defending it. Mr Trump later insisted her firing was down to her being "weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration”. Dana Boente replaced Ms Yates but it is believed he in turn will be cut in favour of Senator Jeff Sessions, who is currently waiting to be confirmed by the Senate. Hours before Moore’s comments, a Google engineer made the same argument in a viral blog post.

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The engineer said Bannon himself kicked back lawyers at the Department for Homeland Security who tried to stop the Muslim ban. Yonatan Zunger claimed the administration was in the middle of transferring all executive power "to a tight inner circle, eliminating any possible checks from either the Federal bureaucracy, Congress, or the Courts”. He wrote: “Departments are being reorganised or purged to effect this". He also wrote that moves like the so-called Muslim ban and the unexpected events that followed are a way of "actively probing the means by which they can seize unchallenged power".