If he times it right, Donald Trump might set back the Democratic Party for a generation or more; if he misses, he'll go down in history along with Herbert Hoover as the guy who brought the nation an economic disaster.

Back in 2007 and early 2008, many of us were convinced that an economic crash was coming, and that George W. Bush and his Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, knew it.

And we also thought that they were doing everything they could to hold it off so it would happen after the 2008 election, so if a Democrat was elected they could say the crash was because people were "worried about the incoming Democrats," and if McCain won it would be his problem, not Bush's.

It appears that Trump may be doing the same thing, only, as with so many of his High Crimes (a phrase that includes "serious misuse or abuse of office"), he's being much more public about it. On June 15, he tweeted, "if anyone but me takes over... there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!"

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-Thom