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Trump Shares Pastor’s Warning of ‘Civil War-Like Fracture’ If Impeached

Trump Shares Pastor’s Warning of ‘Civil War-Like Fracture’ If Impeached

1CommentsSeptember 30, 2019 Updated: September 30, 2019
President Donald Trump shared a warning from Pastor Robert Jeffress about a “Civil War-like fracture” if Democrats should impeach him.
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“Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats can’t put down the impeachment match,” Jeffress said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends program on Sept 29.
“They know they couldn’t beat him in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, they’re increasingly aware of the fact that they won’t win against him in 2020, and impeachment is the only tool they have to get rid of Donald Trump—and the Democrats don’t care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process.
“I have never seen them [evangelical Christians] more angry over any issue than this attempt to illegitimately remove this president from office, overturn the 2016 election, and negate the votes of millions of evangelicals in the process. They know that the only impeachable offense President Trump has committed was beating Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“That’s the unpardonable sin for which the Democrats will never forgive him. And I do want to make this prediction this morning: if the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal.”
Trump retweeted on Sept. 29 what Jeffress had said, adding his own comment in parentheses.
The warning sparked hashtags on Twitter, including #CivilWar2 and #CivilWarSignup. Some people on Twitter accused Trump of predicting a new Civil War.
It comes about a week after House Democrats said they would push an inquiry into impeachment, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saying Sept. 24 that Trump “seriously violated the Constitution.”
The move prompted the release of a whistleblower complaint along with a transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The House would need a simple majority to impeach the president before it’s turned over to the Senate, which would need more than a two-thirds majority, or 67 percent, to remove a president. No president has ever been successfully removed from office. The last president to be impeached was Bill Clinton, and before him, former President Andrew Johnson, who was impeached several years after the Civil War ended.

79 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease now reported in outbreak linked to North Carolina state fair

79 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease now reported in outbreak linked to North Carolina state fair

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(CNN)An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease linked to a state fair this month in North Carolinahas grown to 79 confirmed cases, including 55 hospitalizations and one death, according to the state division of public health.
Authorities haven't pinpointed the source of the outbreak, but the division of public health said in an online post that many of the people reported attending the NC Mountain State Fair in Fletcher, outside Asheville, between September 6 and 15.
Authorities are looking at airborne droplets from water rides at the fair as a possible cause of the outbreak, Kelly Haight Connor, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Health and Human Services, told CNN Thursday.
Health officials said 34 confirmed cases, including the death, were reported in Buncombe County, where the fair occurred. Adjacent Henderson County reported 21 cases. Eleven other North Carolina counties reported one to five cases, and five cases were from out of state.
    Four cases of Pontiac fever, a milder flu-lilke condition, have also been reported, the division of public health said.
    "As a precaution, anyone who attended the NC Mountain State Fair and is experiencing cough, fever or shortness of breath, is advised to call their health care provider right away and talk to them about Legionnaire's disease," the health division said.
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    State health officials were first notified about an increase in cases in Buncombe and Henderson counties on Monday.
    The cases range in age from 37 to 90, and more than half are male, according to health officials.
    The state's "Communicable Disease Branch is working with Mountain State Fair organizers to investigate a possible connection of these cases with attendance at the fair earlier this month," Buncombe and Henderson county officials said in statements on Wednesday.
    The Asheville Citizen-Times, citing fair officials, reported that the 10-day fair at the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher attracted more than 170,000 people.

    Atlanta outbreak killed 1

    Legionnaires' disease is a lung infection contracted when people breathe in the Legionella bacteria through a mist or by accidentally getting water into their lungs that contains the bacteria.
    The disease is serious but can be treated with antibiotics, the department said. About 1 in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die, a recent government report found.
    Legionella bacteria are found naturally in the environment but can become a health concern when they "spread in human-made water systems like hot water tanks, cooling towers of air conditioning systems, decorative fountains and hot tubs or spas that are not properly maintained," the North Carolina health department said.
      At least one person died of Legionnaires' disease during a recent outbreak linked to an Atlanta hotel.
      About 7,500 US cases of Legionnaires' disease were reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017, but that's likely an underestimate because the illness is underdiagnosed, according to the CDC. The reported rate of people who get Legionnaires' disease has risen by 550% since 2000.

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