What did Donald Trump do today?

He threatened a woman for releasing the results of a poll.

In the closing days of the campaign, respected Iowa pollster Ann Selzer released her final poll of the state. It showed the surprising result that Vice-President Kamala Harris was leading in the state by three points.

In the election itself, Trump won the state handily, by 13 points. Today, in an angry post to his private social media network, he said that Selzer should be "investigated" for "ELECTION FRAUD." Asked if Trump was serious, his spokesperson Steven Cheung said that he was.

It is not a crime to release a poll that turns out to be inaccurate, or even—as Trump has done too many times to count—to make up numbers on the spot and insist that they are real. It is a crime to carry out a criminal investigation under false pretenses.

Why does this matter?

• Treating every imagined slight against the ruler into an attack on the state is what fascists do.

• It's a bad sign for Trump's emotional stability if winning the election wasn't enough for him.