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Noam Chomsky Predicts Trump Will Stage Terror Attack to Bolster Support

April 4, 2017

Author and political activist Noam Chomsky said Tuesday he believes President Donald Trump will likely stage a terrorist attack on the United States during his time in office to bolster his domestic support.

Chomsky made the claim on "Democracy Now!" while promoting his new book, Requiem for the American Dream, RealClearPolitics reports.

Chomsky first said that Trump would not fulfill his past promises of focusing on the economy and bringing back manufacturing jobs.

"Sooner or later this con game is not going to work," said Chomsky, a linguistics professor. "People will understand he's not bringing back jobs, he's not going to recreate the partly illusory, partly real picture of what life was like in the past with manufacturing jobs, and a functioning society where you can get ahead and so on and so forth, he's not going to create that."

Chomsky then explained his belief that Trump would stage an attack on America after trying to pin blame for problems on other groups.

"What happens at that point? Something has to be done to maintain control," Chomsky predicted. "The obvious technique is scapegoating. So, blame it on immigrants, on the Muslims, on somebody, but that can only go so far."

"The next step would be, as I said, an alleged terrorist attack, which is quite easy, in fact almost normal, like Condoleezza Rice's 'Mushroom Cloud,'" Chomsky continued. "That's easy to construct alleged attacks."

The linguist argued that the U.S. has for years "probably been the most terrified country in the world," indicating that would be conducive to Trump staging an attack to gain support.

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