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I have a nagging suspicion that there is a lot more to the missile alert than a simple mistake.

I think this really was their plan:

I’ve heard speculation that the false alarm was a deliberate attempt to provoke Trump into pushing his big button and thereby start a nuclear war so he could then be impeached.

Hey, it would make perfect sense to a liberal!

This is probably why they waited for FEMA to “give them permission” to cancel the alert. They wanted to make double dammed sure Trump was in the loop and give him time to mash the button...

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“pushing his big button and thereby start a nuclear war so he could then be impeached. “

If he had opened the envelopes and distributed the codes, the generals in charge would say WTF? Nothing on radar, no BSTS flags, nothing except this? THAT may have been the plan, because in the absence of ANY corroboration they would not act. Normally there would be confirmed detection and this info gets passed to POTUS, not a tweet or news item.

So if Trump had acted, with no actual attack, this would be stopped and then they could say he’s nuts.

Instead, he got the news along with the fact that there is no attack and he decided to let hawaii handle it.