Predawn Twitter Storm: Donald Trump’s Destructive Habit

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/opinion/predawn-twitter-storm-donald-trumps-destructive-habit.html

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To the Editor:

Re “At All Hours, Trump Wakens a Twitter Fury” (front page, Oct. 1):

This is a fascinating article, but I take issue with this sentence about Donald Trump’s late-night pattern: “It is when Mr. Trump is alone with his thoughts, and untethered from his campaign staff, that he has seemed to commit his most self-destructive acts.”

The important issue isn’t that he is self-destructive; it’s that he’s just plain destructive, of whoever is the target of his late-night electronic missives.

A question often asked about presidential candidates is how they might react to that 3 a.m. phone call. We are fortunate indeed that Mr. Trump is so clearly demonstrating, conveniently before the election, exactly how his predawn judgment would be: awful!

Now consider that the missives could be missiles. This candidate is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

VICKI RIBA KOESTLER

Alexandria, Va.