Donald Trump has raised the spectre of divisions akin to a civil war in the US in the event that he is impeached, in a series of incendiary posts on Twitter.
The president appeared to approvingly quote Robert Jeffress, a pastor and Fox News contributor, in a stream of late-night tweetwe.
“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,” Mr Jeffress said, in words then quoted by Mr Trump.
The president tweeted and reposted several defences of his behaviour on Sunday night and lashed out at the Democratic Party.
