Tweets pastor's warning that removal would cause a "Civil War like fracture"

Trump posted on Twitter a quotation from Pastor Robert Jeffress stating that if Democrats succeeded in removing him from office "it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal," adding his own parenthetical that they would "never" succeed. The post drew bipartisan condemnation; Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger called it "beyond repugnant," and Harvard Law professor John Coates argued a sitting president invoking civil war over a constitutional impeachment process was itself a basis for impeachment. The record documents the amplification as a presidential act; the civil-war framing is attributed to Jeffress as quoted by Trump.

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