Part of this is building a police force that is directed by them and by the time enough of the population finally wakes up and realizes what is going on, they have too much momentum to stop.

then 6 hours later after Trump says we have to do something about it stating things like: "We have to protect our brothers in Christ!" is so ridiculous.

No, it isn't illegal to say The Church (or any church) has/had a problem with child abuse, indigenous abuse, or even that they are exploitative or even evil in some of it's actions at times... yet.
We are not far from that point though.

and moving high-level loyal people to military bases with strategic import shows he is getting more confident they will pull off what they are going to do. He doesn't have to hide as much anymore.

The fact that so many of the people that jump to conclusions so fast are people in the highest offices make the country look like a bunch of loons.

Two coup... One is in progress now, it is just slower than usual.