NY Times‘ Paul Krugman Suggests Trump Could Engineer Terrorist Attack on U.S.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman not-so-subtly suggested Friday that president-elect Donald Trump had an “incentive” to stage a 9/11-esque terrorist attack in order to grant his presidency legitimacy.

Thought: There was (rightly) a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush, dispelled (wrongly) by 9/11. Creates some interesting incentives for Trump

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016

Of course, Krugman never came out and said explicitly that he thinks Trump should stage a terrorist attack, because Krugman is a coward. Nonetheless, others got the message.

@paulkrugman You assume others are as secretly twisted as you. Merry Christmas.

— Chris Goss (@mastersreality) December 16, 2016

.@paulkrugman Rethink this.

— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) December 16, 2016

This is now to be dubbed the #FutureTruther movement. Where the Krugman’s of the world believe things are inside jobs before they happen. https://t.co/sELJtpHDqo

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) December 16, 2016

If the @nytimes were still a newspaper, they would fire a columnist who tweeted this. Fortunately for @paulkrugman… https://t.co/EhmOmectDt

— Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) December 16, 2016

This is a completely irresponsible thing to say, and just lays the foundations for future crackpot conspiracy theories. https://t.co/z8vJ6Skkn7

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 16, 2016

Paul is like 85% of the way to actually becoming Alex Jones. https://t.co/m53dAr71N9

— Quantian (@quantian1) December 16, 2016

This is also insane https://t.co/4mXLX7wrl8

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) December 16, 2016

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