Over the weekend, Donald Trump had tweeted
out a tweet from pastor Robert Jeffery's appearing
on Fox news.
Here it was, it was,
....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
And a lot of people obviously at the time,
you know, kind of freaked out about this,
Oh my God, Donald Trump's calling for civil
war, except again, and I kind of read it wrong
with the wrong inflection.
Let me repeat it.
"...it will cause a Civil War like fracture
in this Nation..."
So even Jeffries, and I hate to even have
to kind of defend it this way, wasn't saying
there's going to be a civil war, it's gonna
be a civil war like fracture.
And yet the country was fractured at the time.
But Donald Trump has not just in this quote,
he has repeatedly warned that there would
be civil war if he was impeached.
This tweet in particular, just what knit.
So I was content to let it go.
I didn't feel like jumping into this fray.
That's why it's Thursday and I'm just now
talking about it because there are some new
developments with this.
Apparently the armed right-wing freaks in
this country don't think it's just an idle
threat.
They think it is a legitimate call to arms
by the president of the United States.
Here's what the oath keepers, the far right
militia group posted on social media.
Here's the money quote from that thread.
This is the truth.
This is where we are.
We are on the verge of a hot civil war like
in 1859 that's where we are and the right
has zero trust or respect for anything the
left is doing.
We see them as illegitimate too.
Okay?
All right.
Maybe that's not necessarily a call to arms.
You may say, well, let me continue with their
follow-up post.
The militia that's us can be called forth
to execute the laws of the union suppressants
erections and repel invasions.
All he has to do is call us up.
We will answer the call.
The oath keepers said they are ready for a
civil war and that is why Donald Trump has
repeatedly used that term when talking about
impeachment, when talking about the Mueller
report, when talking about anything that may
remove him from office, he has mentioned civil
war multiple different times and he knows
exactly what he's doing and he's getting the
results that he wanted because it's not just
the oath keepers out there.
You also have the Minutemen project and the
uh, United constitutional Patriots who when
Donald Trump was talking about sending troops
to the border, guests with these two groups
did, they grabbed their guns against the law
by the way, and went down there to the Southern
border and they were going to shoot people
as they crossed.
They were there to bolster ice.
Even though that that's illegal, you can't
actually do that.
But they were ready to, they were there, they
were armed and they were ready to pull the
trigger.
Just like what the oath keepers are saying
today, these threats from the president cannot
be taken lightly.
It doesn't matter if he's quoting somebody
on Fox news.
It doesn't matter if the quote wasn't actually
calling for a civil war.
These groups don't see it that way, and that's
why this is important.
That's why I'm talking about it today, because
they are ready and they are armed and they
will do anything to protect Donald Trump,
even if it means an armed insurrection here
in the United States, which they claim they
want to fight against, but there is no insurrection
happening.
What's happening is that we're following the
letter of the law for once in this administration.
We're getting to the bottom of things.
We're trying to root out and stamp out and
permanently banish corruption, but that's
not how these people see it.
They see it as an attack on their president
who lost the popular vote by over 3 million
votes, and they will do anything to make the
Democrats pay for making their president look
like the corrupt criminal that he
truly is.
