President Trump shifts his rhetoric from witch hunts to lynchings
President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives as a “lynching,” deploying perhaps his most incendiary rhetoric yet to describe the Democratic-led probe into his conduct.
on Twitter. “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!”That morning post by the president tore open a fresh cycle of outrage on Capitol Hill — infuriating African-American legislators and further inflaming tensions in a Congress already deeply divided along party lines amid the Ukraine-focused investigation.
According to a digital archive of Trump's social media feed, he only tweeted the term on one other occasion, in a September 2015Throughout his 2016 campaign and continuing into his presidency, Trump has been accused of fomenting racial animus and assailing his Democratic rivals with racist or crass criticisms.widespread opprobrium for calling into question the patriotism of four freshman congresswomen of color, tweeting that those U.S. citizens should “go back” to their countries of origin.
“That is one word no president ought to imply on himself,” he said. “I’ve studied presidential history quite a bit, and I don’t know if we’ve ever seen anything quite like this. Andrew Johnson never would’ve described what was happening to him this way, and certainly Bill Clinton didn’t, nor did Nixon. This president is hopefully an anomaly.”
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