# How Likely is It that Trump will Try to Proclaim Martial Law? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 17, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-trump-will-try-to-proclaim-martial-law/928294 "2020-12-17T22:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 162
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Well, for whatever’s it worth, I’m a former Army intelligence enlisted person, and I don’t find his “informed theorizing” very persuasive. If it was a “probing attack”, what was with the warning broadcasts? I can’t personally think of _any_ terrorist attacks, ever, that came with that kind of warning. The IRA would sometimes call in bomb warnings ahead of time, but that was itself part of the terror campaign. And those bombings weren’t infrastructure attacks. This _really_ seems to me like a personal grudge, maybe against AT&T, rather than a deliberate infrastructure attack, and even more likely an elaborate suicide. Of course, I could be wrong. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-trump-will-try-to-proclaim-martial-law/928294)._