As the impeachment inquiry accelerates, and new witnesses are expected to testify regarding Trump's extortion of Ukraine, sociopath and Kremlin asset Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump furiously tweeting unhinged attacks on his pursuers. Just hours ago, he went far beyond even his regular abnormal behavior (e.g., even going beyond his warning that the markets would crash if he's impeached), by quoting a corrupt supporter's view that his impeachment and removal would trigger a civil war:
....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.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
Granted that the golden-calf worshiping Robert Jeffress is a fierce right-wing partisan hack using religious trappings, Trump's approving quotation of his sinister threat says everything about his cornered, burn-it-down Führer's bunker mentality. The pushback was swift and devastating:
18 USC 2383— Laura Haines (@Haines4Laura) September 30, 2019
"Whoever incites... any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."@SpeakerPelosi
For those of you keeping track of trump's impeachable offenses:— BrooklynDad_Defiant Savage! (@mmpadellan) September 30, 2019
TREASON
Emoluments
Obstruction of justice
Abuse of power
Extortion
...and tonight, INCITING CIVIL WAR.
Forget the impeachment inquiry.
He is a clear and present danger.
Put his ass in a straight jacket.
We're dealing with a very disturbed sociopath. When finally faced with impeachment for his abuses, he is lashing out and accusing everyone of treason, setting off new investigations, calling for civil war.— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) September 30, 2019
Should've expected it. Don't be too afraid of it. That's what he wants.
Now @realDonaldTrump is threatening every American with national doom. He is daring the nation to use its constitutional right and power to impeach and remove him. That, too, is a grave abuse of his bully pulpit. He is a menace to our democracy. Look at what he just said: https://t.co/mLTQWORaxK— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 30, 2019
Call me quaint but it just seems a bit ominous to have a president quote tweeting someone warning about civil war— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 30, 2019
I'll just leave this right here so they can add it in the impeachment process pic.twitter.com/Lxs139sb5E— Mary Anne Sandler (@liquorlady2) September 30, 2019
Hard to think of a more narcissistic act than threatening violence and war against your own country.— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) September 30, 2019
These are not the words of an innocent man. https://t.co/Z69tPAy4x4
A Republican congressman responds:
I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. @realDonaldTrump I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant. https://t.co/a5Bae7bP7g— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) September 30, 2019
Again, there is no "bottom" to Trump's depravity and malignant narcissism.
BONUS: Satirist Andy Borowitz's headline -- "Trump Says If There Is Another Civil War He Will Get A New Note From Podiatrist."
