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Trump's war games

Hillary Clinton warned during the campaign, that he isn't someone who should have the nuclear codes, as it wasn't hard to imagine him leading US into war just because someone got under his skin

Donald Trump. Photo: PTI
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Donald Trump. Photo: PTI

Charles M Blow | NYT
Don’t say that we weren’t warned.

In a September 2015 speech before the National Press Club in Washington, the Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said:

“Donald Trump is dangerous. But not in the way you think. Many people think he’s dangerous. They say, ‘Well, you wouldn’t want somebody like that with such a hot head with his fingers on the nuclear codes.’ And yeah, that’s certainly true. That’s not the real danger. The real danger is that ironically Donald Trump could destroy America’s chance to be great again.”

During the second Republican presidential debate that same month, the CNN anchor

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