"no one would know it was us." --- yes it was worse than we could imagine.

[underpants]

36. Now THAT is a good read. 😳

Trump, according to the book, raised this idea "at least twice."

In other words, as recently as 2020, the commander in chief of the nation’s most powerful military, thought it’d be a good idea to launch Patriot missiles — which are not intended for ground targets — into an allied neighbor’s country, to kill non-military targets, at which point he’d lie to the world.

As I argued in my book, the Republican genuinely seemed to believe that every challenge should be addressed through unexamined, overly simplified answers that appealed to his version of common sense.