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Immediate backlash after Trump calls impeachment probe ‘a lynching’


WASHINGTON — Conjuring memories of violent racially motivated murders and drawing an immediate bipartisan backlash, President Donald Trump on Tuesday described House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as a “lynching.”
Trump made the statement in a morning tweet that began with a warning that “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.”

Then, for reasons that remain unclear, he opted to poke unhealed wounds from America’s difficult – and bloody – racial history, writing: “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing …read more

Source:: Independent Online

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