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#EndorseThis: Former Nuclear Missile-Launch Officer: ‘The Prospect Of A Donald Trump Presidency Keeps Me Up At Night’

#EndorseThis: Former Nuclear Missile-Launch Officer: ‘The Prospect Of A Donald Trump Presidency Keeps Me Up At Night’

If someone who’s been near the nukes is afraid of a presidential candidate, something ain’t right.

Former Nuclear Missile-Launch officer John Noonan appeared on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes on Wednesday to elaborate on his now-viral tweets about the danger of a Donald Trump presidency.

Noonan’s tweet storm came after reports that Trump repeatedly asked an advisor why the United States could not use nuclear weapons.

“Buckle the hell up,” the former Jeb Bush adviser tweeted. “Nuclear deterrence is about balance. Trump is an elephant jumping up and down on one side of the scale. So damn dangerous.”

Noonan, who served as a Minuteman III nuclear launch officer in the U.S. Air Force, and is now a national security expert, told Hayes that the thought of a Trump presidency keeps him up at night.

“I have several friends in the military still that are like family to me, and the thought of him as Commander-In-Chief is disconcerting. They’re going to be looking to him for leadership,” Noonan said. “They deserve the best leadership in the world, and I don’t think they’re going to get it with Donald Trump. You add nuclear forces, strategic forces to that equation and it gets ugly very fast.”

Photo and video: MSNBC

 

WATCH: GOP Strategist Rick Wilson Explains Why White Nationalism Is A ‘Feature’ Of The Trump Campaign

WATCH: GOP Strategist Rick Wilson Explains Why White Nationalism Is A ‘Feature’ Of The Trump Campaign

GOP strategist Rick Wilson appeared on “All In with Chris Hayes” on Tuesday to shine a light on the real reason anti-Semitism and white nationalism keep popping up in the Trump campaign – they are a “feature,” not “a bug,” of the campaign.

Wilson, a Republican who has firmly opposed Trump from the start, wrote an open letter to RNC chairman Reince Preibus asking him get Trump “to block the neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, overt racists and other scum who litter his timeline.” His effort was unsuccessful because Preibus was scared of offending Trump, he said, and Trump doesn’t want to offend his base.

That base, Wilson explained, is filled with a “deeply resentful, edge-case group of people who really believe that the Jews control the world and that white nationalism is the future of American politics.”

Wilson broke down the depth of the Trump campaign’s outreach to extremist groups, pointing out that Trump engages with them, replying to them, retweeting them, and otherwise encouraging them. This is a planned strategy that Trump and his social media team follow as a central part of his campaign.

This pattern of “continued flirtation,” as Wilson calls it, is one Trump has stuck to. He refused to disavow David Duke and the KKK, refused to acknowledge the anti-Semitic symbol in a tweet against Hillary Clinton, refused to apologize for undercutting Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s professional integrity because of his parents’ Mexican his heritage, and on and on.

 

Photo and Video: MSNBC.