Ex-DHS chief warns of Trump’s 'very real' obsession with setting off a nuke

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This was the topic of concern on Friday, when he published a new piece for The i Paper expressing grave concerns about the possibility that Trump will do the unthinkable and launch a nuclear weapon before the end of his term. Taylor explained that most nuclear-age presidents have, after becoming deeply familiar with their terrifying power, developed the "disposition to keep such bombs from going off."

Trump, by contrast, has a "perverse and not-so-secret desire" to set one off, something that Taylor predicts he will try to do before leaving office, "even if it’s only a test."

"Trump’s fascination with nuclear weapons is very real," Taylor wrote. "When he wields the threat of dropping a nuke or wiping out an entire civilization, he’s not deploying a negotiating tactic under the cloak of bravado. He’s doing something far more unsettling. He’s being himself."

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Based on his first-hand experience, Taylor explained that Trump "brought the United States closer to a nuclear exchange than the world ever realized" during his first term in the White House.

"At one point, his defense chief warned my team to prepare the home front for attack, as if war was imminent," he detailed. "Trump had told advisers he genuinely wanted to strike North Korea with a nuke, so at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we held emergency sessions on strike scenarios against the US homeland, sessions we had never needed to conduct in the department’s history."

Taylor also revealed the time he found the acting DHS secretary "shaken" in an underground "secure facility" following a North Korean missile test. The secretary, he said, "was rattled by the President’s apparent lack of concern," after he called her about border security and deportations after "a nuclear-armed regime had just tested a weapon capable of reaching the American homeland," something that was the direct result of his own tweets egging them on.