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This week we have been forcefully reminded that Donald Trump was, and is, a national security risk unlike any the United States has ever faced.
The FBI search of Trump’s Florida retreat, Mar-a-Lago, and the revelations of details of his war with America’s generals as detailed in a preview of a new book from the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, underscored yet again that Trump, as president, posed a unique threat. The flaws in his character, ignorance, contempt for our laws and institutions, and his dubious loyalties made him the most dangerous and powerful man in the world.
And that threat remains, as he seems likely to run for president for a third time. In many ways, it’s even more grave as Trump and his supporters grow increasingly brazen in their embrace of ideas that could render the nation unable to protect itself against him in the future.