Current Events > Despite hand wringing over Trump, Dems called Clinton impeachment 'lynching'

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-top-dems-including-nadler-called-clinton-impeachment-lynching

Even as top Democrats rushed to condemn President Trump's comparison of their impeachment inquiry to a "lynching," footage and news reports have emerged showing several top Democrats referring matter-of-factly to Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings as a "lynching" in 1998.

Among those Democrats are two African-American representatives still serving in the House, as well as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and presidential contender Joe Biden.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., called Clinton's impeachment a "persecution" and a "political lynching" on the House floor in 1998. And Danny Davis, D-Ill., condemned what he described as a "lynching in the People's House."

Biden, who has condemned Trump's remarks as abhorrent and despicable," said in 1998 that a Clinton impeachment could be perceived as a "partisan lynching."

Jim McDermott, D-Wash., warned of the "political lynch" mob that was forming, and suggested that "we are going to find a rope, find a tree, and ask ... questions later."

Former top Democratic Sens. Harry Reid and John Kerry also have used the term on the Senate floor.

GOP Rapid Response Director Steve Guest pointed to an October 2008 comment from now-Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y, that was published in an Associated Press article.

The quote from Nadler read: "I am the presidents defender in the sense that I havent seen anything yet that would rise, in my opinion, to the level of impeachable offense. I wish we could get this over with quickly. In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob."

The brouhaha began when Trump tweeted Tuesday: "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."

Trump added: "All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here a lynching. But we will WIN!"

Democrats, this time around, immediately condemned the comparison of impeachment proceedings to lynchings.

"That is one word no president ought to apply to himself," said South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress. "That is a word that we ought to be very, very careful about using."

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who is also black, called on Trump to delete his tweet.

"Do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched, since the inception of this country, by people who look like you. Delete this tweet," Rush wrote.

Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., tweeted to Trump: "No sir! No, @realDonaldTrump: this is NOT a lynching, and shame on you for invoking such a horrific act that was used as a weapon to terrorize and murder African Americans."

Meanwhile, Republican legislators largely tried to put the focus on what they said was the unfair way in which Democrats are conducting the inquiry.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Trump's description was "pretty well accurate." He called the impeachment effort a "sham" and a "joke" because the president does not know the identity of his accuser, and the process is playing out in private.

"This is a lynching in every sense," said Graham, who is close to Trump.

So when they do it, it's fine, but when Trump does it, it's racist? Sounds like typical Democrat logic.
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Manocheese posted...

So when they do it, it's fine, but when Trump does it, it's racist?

Nobody likes Trump anyway, so who cares?

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It was bad then, and shows how tone-deaf Biden has always been.
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I hope in the 90s people were calling out Democrats for doing that just like they are calling out Trump and Graham. It was not okay to do in the 90s and it's not okay to do now.

Question did Bill Clinton say it?
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lol. who cares about a bj in the oval?
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spudger posted...

lol. who cares about a bj in the oval?

Clinton wasn't impeached over his consensual extramarital activities. He was impeached over lying about them under oath while being investigated for sexual assault.
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creativerealms posted...

I hope in the 90s people were calling out Democrats for doing that just like they are calling out Trump and Graham. It was not okay to do in the 90s and it's not okay to do now.

Question did Bill Clinton say it?

Nobody was calling out Dems for doing it, and you fucking know it.
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darkjedilink posted...

Nobody was calling out Dems for doing it, and you fucking know it.

You have no way of knowing if that was true

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yawn, boring, fake news, you're dismissed
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So by implication of the entire Democratic party you actually just meant one Democrat said it.
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