🚨👇🏼🚨 https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1349886817420668929
If I had Trump’s character pathology and were in his position, I’d do some/all of the following:

• Armed state Capitol takeovers
• Shock event and blame on Iran/Antifa/BLM (targeting synagogues/grids)
• Attack DC again
• With Israel/KSA, start war with Iran
• US martial law
From Trump’s perspective, this is End Game for this match.

There is literally nothing he won’t do to try to maintain power, to “win.”

Nothing.

He already sent an armed, violent mob to the US Capitol to assassinate Pence, Pelosi, and others and watched gleefully as it happened.
As horrific as my theoretical scenario sounds, whatever he’s come up with is worse.

Like most normal people, my imagination can only take me so far.

I wrote this in February 2016–scroll up and down to read the entire thread: https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/704038197374771202
We’ll be lucky to emerge without nuclear weapon use.

Remember the story about Pelosi talking to Milley re stopping Trump from launching nuclear weapons?

That was to calm us.

They know Trump has unilateral authority to do so and the system is built for speed, if he chooses to.
I wrote this in October 2016 about how malignant narcissists like Trump react to perceived betrayal/rejection (scroll up and down).

In it, I discuss the unsettling fit between his annihilatory rage and the unique potentiality of nuclear weapons.

(I’m sorry. I pray I am wrong.) https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/785157090503380992
Folks want me to delete “if I were him” tweet. They’re scared it will give him ideas.

Scared
=
Good reality testing

But he already has ideas worse than I or you can imagine.

Even I never considered a mob planning to livestream the torture and murder of MoC in the US Capitol.
Close up the notes the MyPillowGuy used during his meeting with Trump show the words “martial law” and “make clear this is China/Iran”:

🚨👇🏼🚨 https://twitter.com/jabinbotsford/status/1350186100564905985
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