> The threat was real, the missile was shot down
If NK had launched something, multiple countries would have detected the launch, acted against the launch, and let everyone else know about the launch.
If NK had launched something, it would have been picked up by NORAD or similar, and the order to alert everyone would have flowed downwards from there, which means that all the alert systems on Hawaii would have gone off, and we would have seen a substantial military response. This didn't happen, only a single system broadcast the alarm.
> The EAS was hacked to provoke reaction from Trump [..] onsidering how many people could have died if we had retaliated
The EAS is not a launch detection system. Hawaii State EMA is not a launch detection agency. In the case of actual launch, actual launch detection agencies would know first, and then tell Hawaii State EMA to trigger all the alarms. The information doesn't normally flow the other way around.
As the information that an alarm was going off in Hawaii, everyone above in the normal notification chain would question it and ask why the fuck the alarm was going off, since they would know they didn't order it.
If you think the US would start nuclear retaliation without confirmation of actual launch, you're an idiot.
> The EAS was commandeered by a disgruntled employee
Possible. It's directly contradicted by the official statement, though.
> The monitoring system used to look for incoming threats malfunctioned
If actual launch detection systems had picked up a launch, then you would have information flowing out of NORAD, ordering all emergency alert systems to go off, sirens, EAS, tv, radio, the works. You would also have a military response, and you would have procedures for informing political leadership, including the president. None of this happened. A single alarm system in Hawaii went off.
> In an attempt to distract the MSM from some policy he is currently pursuing, Trump ordered the "fake" threat.
How the fuck would the federal president be able to order a state civilian agency to execute and cover up such an idiotic plan, without it leaking, and without anyone questioning?
> The mistake was exactly that; a mistake
And this is the only sane guess in this wall of idiocy.