- Trump tweeted that Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is a ‘lynching’
- Compared one-sided congressional process to racial summary executions
- Tuskegee Institute says 3,446 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the U.S.
- Black Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush exploded on Twitter: ‘What the hell is wrong with you?’
- South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, said ‘lynching’ is ‘one word no president ought to apply to himself’
- Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman: ‘Every time your back is up against the wall, you throw out these racial bombs. We’re not taking the bait’
- Lindsey Graham told reporters he doesn’t understand why African-Americans see the president’s reference to ‘lynching’ as a racial attack
- ‘No, I think lynching is being seen as somebody taking the law in their own hands,’ he said, ‘and out to get somebody for no good reason’
- White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley claimed: ‘The president was not trying to compare himself to the horrific history in this country at all’
Donald Trump called Democrats’ intensifying impeachment inquiry a ‘lynching’ on Tuesday, drawing a stark comparison between the murders of thousands of African-Americans and the political process that might cost him his job.
Outraged Democratic lawmakers called the pronouncement racially charged. At least one Trump ally, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, backed him up.
Venting on Twitter, Trump echoed complaints from other Republicans about the summary-judgment nature of some procedures House Democrats have adopted, including limiting their opponents’ ability to call witnesses and provide legal counsel to those who the majority grill behind closed doors.
‘So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights,’ the president wrote.
Black Marxists are out of control! Blacks don’t “own” lynching! I am incensed that POS political whores like #CoryBooker and #KamalaHarris attempt to commandeer lynchings AS IF only blacks were lynched! The truth is that whites, Asians and Hispanics have all been lynched. I am completely insulted by Booker’s and Harris’s remarks as they attempt to debase other ethnicities and the atrocities that have happened to them just for their political gain. I abhor these pieces of sh*t.
Oh, btw, I agree wholeheartedly with #PresidentTrump! #MAGA #WWG1WGA
3000+ blacks get shot every year by other blacks. I guess if nooses are ‘raycissss’ so are firearms.