Katrina Pierson, a person Donald Trumps chooses to represent him on television, wore a necklace made out of ammunition last night on CNN. When someone on Twitter pointed this out, she countered with an insane remark about abortion.

There is basically no way to interpret the following as not bizarre and menacing:

What else, outside of a sort of “Mad Max” future scenario, does “bullet necklace” connote other than vague threats and instability? Remember that this is a woman who has said she hopes Donald Trump uses the American nuclear arsenal, so her views on harming/killing other people are more or less concrete.

Here was her reply, a non sequitur so powerful it should replace one corner of the nuclear triad:

Honestly that would be great television.

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