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By John Wojcik
President Trump, after predicting his impeachment would trigger civil war, stepped up his vitriol yesterday by characterizing the impeachment inquiry as a “coup” and by warning his die-hard right-wing followers in one of almost 50 tweets that Democrats were “coming for” their liberty, their homes, and their guns. The escalating rhetoric from the White House was accompanied by revelations from border and Homeland Security officials that in closed meetings Trump had urged them to shoot asylum seekers at the border and that when they told him it would be illegal he urged them to at least “shoot them in the legs to slow them down.” The president then promised the border officials that if they got into legal trouble for following those orders he would pardon them.
“This is a totally lawless president,” said Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on national television when she heard about the remarks. “He is out of control.”
In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump said he had come to the conclusion that the inquiry is not really an impeachment, “it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People....
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