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House Republican Iraq War Vet Calls Trump Out for Repeating Claim That Impeaching Him Will Cause a Civil War

House Republican Iraq War Vet Calls Trump Out for Repeating Claim That Impeaching Him Will Cause a Civil War
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President Donald Trump spreads a lot of messages of his own creation on Twitter—his apparent favorite form of communication—but Trump also repeats others' words. And while he may not have written the quoted words himself, his tweet is an endorsement and amplification of them.

One presidential tweet Sunday had people crying foul, including a Republican House member, Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.


The words posted by the President were from controversial Trump Evangelical adviser, Pastor Robert Jeffress. A frequent guest on Fox News television and radio, Pastor Jeffress—who has been criticized for his Islamophobic, antisemitic, ethnocentric and homophobic views as well as other claims—appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend.

On Sunday during a flurry of tweets and retweets by the President trying to sway public opinion in advance of his impeachment inquiry, Trump included a quote from Jeffress with his own parenthetical response thrown in.

"If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be [Trump addition]), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal."

And while most respondents and recent polls disagreed with Jeffress and the President over the effects of an impeachment...

...GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger had harsh words for the President's choice to share the Jeffress quote at all.

"I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. [Donald Trump] I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President."

Kinzinger added:

"This is beyond repugnant."

This is not the first time Trump—whose family has five generations without military service despite two world wars, the Korean War and Vietnam War each involving drafts—drew criticism for his bold talk of war from veterans who actually served. Illionois' Kinzinger was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

While many appreciated Kinzinger's rebuke, others felt it was just the first step.

Others responded to the President with messages similar to Kinzinger's.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, announced a formal impeachment inquiry would review the case for an impeachment vote. Since then, the President made veiled threats against the whistleblower and declared Pelosi no longer Speaker of the House in his eyes.

The United States Constitution—which all elected officials, military members and federal government workers take an oath to uphold and defend—established the impeachment process. Two Presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have been impeached. President Richard Nixon resigned before his impeachment inquiry ended and before a vote was taken.

The book Impeachment: A Handbook is available here to inform about the history, rules and process of impeachment.

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