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GOP Congressman Blasts as 'Repugnant' Trump Civil War Tweet

Associated Press

   A Republican congressman is slamming as ``beyond repugnant'' President
   Donald Trump's tweet of a conservative pastor's comment that removing
   Trump from office would provoke a "civil war-like fracture" in America.
   Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a former Air Force pilot who represents an
   Illinois district Trump won in 2016, tweeted Sunday, "I have visited
   nations ravaged by civil war. ... I have never imagined such a quote to
   be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant."
   Trump had tweeted a comment from the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of
   the Southern Baptist megachurch First Baptist Dallas. On "Fox & Friends
   Weekend" on Sunday, Jeffress said, "If the Democrats are successful in
   removing the president from office, it will cause a civil war-like
   fracture in this nation from which our country will never heal."

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