Counterterrorism expert and MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance tweeted earlier this year about his nomination for the first Trump property to be bombed by ISIS.
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It was the Trump Tower Istanbul, and Nance received a lot of backlash about the comment, which has since been deleted.
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One Twitter user asked when Nance would be fired by MSNBC for his comments.
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Another user suggested the FBI should step in and investigate.
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According to Chris Sampson, who has co-authored books with Nance, “There’s no way my Cro-Magnon brain would have interpreted that to say he’s threatening somebody.”
Rather, it was a “threat assessment” based on the fact that “both President [Donald] Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are particularly resented by ISIS, and that both have recently been in the news together, making a location that both bears Trump’s name and is situated in Erdoğan’s country vulnerable.”
Sampson claimed that Nance would never advocate a terrorist attack.
According to Nance’s Twitter profile, he is an expert in “terrorist strategy, tactics, ideology.”
He also lists the following: “NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief/Jedi Master, NBC/MSNBC.”
Nance has also referred to Trump as the “ISIS candidate” in the past.
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