Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's longtime attorney, said something over a year ago that received little attention at the time.
Cohen, who claims to have been the man Trump called last in the evening and first in the morning for years, said at a hearing of the US Senate that after his experience with the president he feared that there would never be a peaceful one Will change power if Trump loses the election.
Back then, as I said, many did not take it seriously.
Cohen, sentenced to jail for tax evasion and false testimony in Congress, among other things, was not of the best repute.
But little by little, more and more people in the US seem to believe that the country is facing massive unrest.
Around a third of Americans believe civil war is possible in the next five years.
In fact, the perfect storm seems to be brewing: there have been demonstrations against police violence against blacks for months, with looting and devastation again and again.
For a few days now, self-appointed vigilante groups have been opposing the mostly left-wing protesters.
Two people were killed in clashes in Kenosha and one in Portland.
The country is more divided than it has been in a long time - and President Trump is far from acting as a reconciler.
So far he has not condemned the violence of his supporters in any speech, which only seems to spur them on.
SPIEGEL correspondent Ralf Neukirch speaks with moderator Juan Moreno about a worrying development, especially since President Trump has openly said that he can only lose the election if it is manipulated.
Neukirch does not consider the warnings of a civil war in which armed groups are engaged in street battles to be mere alarmism.
"I can very well imagine that the dead in Portland and Kenosha will not be the last."
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