In latest twitter tantrum, Trump calls impeachment inquiry a ‘lynching’ as key witness testifies – live
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Reactions are rolling in to Trump’s description of the impeachment inquiry as a “lynching,” and they are unsurprisingly furious.
From the president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:
A lynching?! 4,743 people were lynched in the US between 1882 – 1968, incl. 3,446 African Americans. Lynchings were crimes against humanity and an ugly part of our nation’s history of racial violence and brutality
Sickened to see Trump’s gross misappropriation of this term today pic.twitter.com/L8Oi9m8xRk
Trump has inspired multiple acts of racist violence and his referring to impeachment as a “lynching” is risible. But worse will be his toadies adopting this inversion of past and present, with the nation’s most powerful racist as a *victim* of racist violence, as a talking point. pic.twitter.com/EaXx3bUUUQ
Clyburn on Trump calling impeachment investigation a “lynching”:
“That is one word that no president ought to apply to himself.”
“I’m not a just a politician…I’m a product of the South. I know the history of that word.”
Good morning, live blog readers!
It is a big day in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Bill Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine who took over the the post after the ouster of Maria Yovanovitch, is expected to testify at 9:30 a.m. E.T., and he could provide critical information on whether military aid to the country was held up over Trump’s demand for an investigation into the Democrats.
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. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!