While the news is scattered and the incidents fresh, it appears the EU-supported politicians attempted a coup d'etat in Poland and lost due to the bravery of the Polish president Karol Nawrocki and the thousands of Poles who support him.
The international press is largely silent as this significant setback for the EU unfolds, but thanks to Elon Musk, X is covering it well.
Sin X nadie en Europa se habría enterado de lo sucedido en Polonia está noche. El jefe del gobierno Donald Tusk perpetró un intento de golpe de Estado aprovechando el viaje del jefe del estado Karol Nawrocky al extranjero. Asaltó el Tribunal Constitucional con la policía y…
— Hermann Tertsch (@hermanntertsch) October 31, 2026
Without X, no one in Europe would have found out about what happened in Poland tonight. The head of government Donald Tusk carried out an attempted coup d'état, taking advantage of the state head Karol Nawrocky's trip abroad. He stormed the Constitutional Tribunal with the police and tried to remove the president and vice president of the Constitutional with a loyal judge without competencies. But he hadn't counted on the president, who, upon learning of it, ordered the plane to turn around while it was flying over Spain. He returned to Warsaw, forced his way into the TC building ahead of his escorts despite Tusk's police cordon, and summoned all the highest institutions of the Supreme and Constitutional to restore constitutional order. Although the crisis continues, it seems clear that Tusk's government, the puppet of Von der Leyen who would never have carried out this assault without Brussels' permission, has its days numbered. But remember, the public and private media across all of Europe have been complicit in the coup d'état by silencing the entire operation. Only social networks have alerted Poles and Europeans. That's why they want to intervene in them.
The plotters managed the airport well enough to refuse Nawrocki's return flight landing rights but the military pilots of his plane ignored the control tower and landed anyway.
A little background on Polish government from Jeff Childers:
Poland has a Constitutional Tribunal, which works roughly like our Supreme Court. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU government called the court illegitimate because the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) packed it with conservatives back in 2015. So his government simply stopped publishing the court's rulings, even though Polish law requires it.
This year, parliament elected new leftwing judges. President Karol Nawrocki, a PiS ally who holds the veto, refused to swear five of them in. Without the president's oath, Polish law says they aren't judges yet.
Last night, while President Nawrocki was out of the country, Donald Tusk's justice minister, Waldemar ??urek, moved to criminally charge the court's conservative chief justice, Bogdan ??wi??czkowski, by lifting his official immunity. Seven of the not-yet-sworn judges walked into the Tribunal under government security escort, and the court's own guards were told to leave.
One of the new judges, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, declared herself the court's most senior judge, by counting her years from 1995 in the ordinary courts, not from any time on the Tribunal. On that basis, she suspended the chief justice and his deputy for a month. Riot police ringed the building and the new judges took over the court's website. The court's X account, still run by the old leadership, posted that everyone involved was "committing the crime of a coup d'état."
When it all went down, President Nawrocki was flying to Senegal. He posted, "At such a moment, the President must be in Poland. I'm interrupting my flight," and flew back. Just after midnight, he went to the Tribunal with the head of the Supreme Court, cut a padlock on the Tribunal's front fence with a power saw, pushed through the police at the door, and told the new judges, "You are not judges." Before dawn, he called it a "forcible takeover of a constitutional organ of the state" and convened emergency security talks for today.[/quote]
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— AMB Simon Geissbühler (@SwissAmbIL) October 31, 2026
How to commit political suicide: Donald Tusk managed to unite the entire fragmented Polish Right + the President against him. He sends the Police to expel the current President and Vice of the Constitutional Tribunal… on a Friday night, after the Stock Exchange closes, during an All Souls' weekend and with the President away on an official trip. Why the importance of All Saints' Day? Because the Polish opposition elite who live in Warsaw and most people all head to their hometowns, to light candles and clean the graves. The sly trick of wanting a city empty of opposition. Result: they all came back from their hometowns and even the President ordered the plane to turn around.
By Saturday it was reported that Prime Minister Donald Tusk had fled Warsaw and flown to the Baltic Sea city of Sopot. Another report has him hiding in the prime minister's office. In any event he's not been seen in public. I don't think this is the action of a winner.
The U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, issued a diplomatically neutral statement:
"The events unfolding tonight at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal are very serious indeed. We appear to be witnessing an unprecedented confrontation over the government's use of state power and the independence and authority of a constitutional institution. Both sides offer sharply different accounts of what happened and why. Whatever the facts ultimately establish, thousands gathering outside the Tribunal make an already dangerous situation more combustible. The last thing Poland needs is a confrontation that spirals into something far worse. America is on Poland's side. It is not our place to judge or interfere in its internal affairs. Our concern is for the stability, security, and democratic future of a country we are proud to call our friend and ally. I hope everyone involved -- government officials, law enforcement, and demonstrators alike, to take a deep breath, and don't take any action that could provoke violence or further escalation. Americans and U.S. President Donald Trump care deeply about this country, its democracy, and its future. But Poland's strength ultimately must come from within -- from its people, its institutions, and their shared commitment to the rule of law. Poland has come too far and accomplished too much to let political differences, no matter how strongly felt, put any of that at risk."
Of course, it is impossible to predict the next step in this crisis, but the fact that 
Tusk has flown the coop (or has locked himself in his office) suggests to me he's failed to overturn the government which had earned Ursula von der Leyen's ire by refusing to give up its independence and open its borders.
Ko smo se odločali za vstop v EU, si ni nihče predstavljal, da bo v kaki njeni članici in uniji nasploh mogoče brez posledic:
— Janez Janša (@JJansaSDS) October 31, 2026
1. Razveljaviti predsedniške volitve (Romunija);
2. Ukiniti informativni program na nacionalni RTV (Madžarska);
3. Poslati policijo na Ustavno sodišče… pic.twitter.com/Qyn9Nfe65g
When we were deciding to join the EU, no one imagined that in any of its member states or in the Union as a whole it would be possible without consequences:
1. To annul presidential elections (Romania);
2. To abolish an informational program on the national RTV (Hungary);
3. To send police to the Constitutional Court (Poland);
4. Three weeks before the elections to send the leader of the polling party to prison (Slovenia);
5. To occupy the national RTV with police and replace the management (Poland);
6. To terminate the mandate of the national RTV leadership and carry out a purge of employees (Slovenia);
7. To send members of the previous government to prison without the possibility of defense (Hungary);
8. To grant nearly a million citizenships to illegal migrants through an expedited process (Spain);
9. To shut down a new Nuclear Power Plant and build a gas pipeline to Russia (Germany);
10. To tax carbon energy sources while simultaneously closing NPPs and relocating industry to countries with low environmental standards under the pretense that this is how we save the planet.
An EU has emerged that must save itself from itself.
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban…
— Jacob Reynolds (@jacobreynolds) October 30, 2026
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
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Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Poland posted this: "Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other… https://t.co/Ivs7Vszjou pic.twitter.com/uMrHqM4sg9
Tusk's first move as prime minister was to take over the country's public broadcasting system by replacing its leadership, instead of passing a media law. When that move was blocked he liquidated public TV. When the Constitutional Tribunal ruled against his government, he stopped recognizing its rulings. "Tusk himself said openly that restoring the rule of law would sometimes require decisions that would not fully meet the criteria of legality." The EU partnered with him by freezing billions of EU funds under a conservative government, restoring them only when Tusk was in office.
It's a nasty European habit:
In Europe, the rule of law is no longer a principle. It is a label. When a conservative government reshapes the courts, it's an assault on democracy. When a pro-Brussels government ignores a court, it's "restoring the rule of law."
It isn't only Poland. In Romania in December 2024, the Constitutional Court annulled the first round of a presidential election after the wrong candidate came first. In France, a TV channel, C8, lost its broadcasting license in 2025, and this week a member of parliament declared that shutting down CNEWS, the most-watched news channel in the country, is "a priority." In Germany, domestic intelligence labeled the main opposition party extremist. In Brussels, the Digital Services Act gives unelected commissioners the power to fine platforms up to 6% of global revenue, and its first fine ever went to X, with more investigations into "disinformation" still open.
He concludes that the reason that the U.S. is "the first power on earth" is because we built our "entire system on a radical idea: the individual comes before the state," protecting speech and property. Reviewing Democratic Party actions like leaning on social media platforms to censor speech, proposing to tax unrealized gains, and packing the Supreme Court, he urges us all: "Keep your First Amendment, Keep your property… Vote on Tuesday."
Do it or people here like Ursula von der Leyen will be taping your mouths shut, rifling through your things and confiscating whatever they wish to, and controlling all human activity under a variety of stupid ideas until our economy is in stasis and our streets overrun with low-IQ third-world thugs on the dole.
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