There’s no stopping a thin-skinned President Trump from going nuclear - By Jonathan Capehart
If the startling lapses in judgment and deficiencies of temperament on display by Donald Trump over the past few days haven’t sufficiently freaked you out, then the prospect of the Republican presidential nominee becoming president of the United States with control of the nuclear codes most certainly will. And if it doesn’t, I hope you’ll be reasonably panicked after reading this.
Trump’s fingers on the nuclear button is such a frightening prospect that it is coming up with greater frequency. “Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions,” said first lady Michelle Obama last Monday. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said last Thursday, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Even Trump’s “Art of the Deal” ghostwriter Tony Schwartz told Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”
That might sound a bit hyperbolic or even laughable. But I’m taking Schwartz’s assertion seriously after talking to Malcolm Nance, a counterterrorism and intelligence consultant who runs the Terror Asymmetrics Project and is author of the New York Times bestseller “Defeating ISIS: Who they are, how they fight, what they believe.”
“The president has almost 100 percent control over the launch of nuclear weapons in any circumstance and under any condition he so chooses,” Nance told me in Philadelphia last week. “He needs to consult no one and can, if mad with power, personal vendetta or feeling national rage, launch an attack that the Constitution and his staffers cannot control.”
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Now I can go build some things
