WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday again waded into America’s fraught racial history by labeling the impeachment inquiry against him a “lynching” - language that conjured memories of decades of killings of thousands of black people - drawing swift bipartisan condemnation.
“The president should not compare a constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such a dangerous and dark chapter of American history. It’s irresponsible for him to do so, and I hope that he will apologize,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, who is black. Trump has a long and controversial history on race including decades-old allegations of discrimination in his family’s real estate business. He also championed the death penalty for five black and Latino teens wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1989 in New York’s Central Park, used an expletive to describe African countries in 2018, and singled out black athletes for criticism after they failed to stand for the national anthem while protesting racial inequity.
The impeachment inquiry is focused on Trump’s request during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he investigate a domestic political rival, former vice president Joe Biden. Biden is a leading contender to become the Democratic 2020 presidential nominee to run against Trump.
Why he let timheidecker name him?
That Burberry pocket handkerchief 🔥
chickchick42 A cuckster
Then may be trump should look in the mirror and start acting like a statesmen rather than a hooligan after a few beers.
African Americans don't hold copyright to the term 'lynching' since 37% of the lynched were white. Furthermore, Democrats, including Biden, used the term in 1998 when Clinton was impeached. A stomach-turning hypocrisy.
I'm a people I'm not upset the truth is the truth
TrueFactsStated hoganGidley models a swank wide lapel double breasted suit accessorized with tie pin AND pocket square - possibly Burberry A fashionista roleModel for complicity
TrueFactsStated It's clear that hogangidley45 is a ridiculously stupid person who doesn't quite perceive how his life is already ruined.
TrueFactsStated They’re even starting to look like hitler youth
TrueFactsStated Hogan Gidley, 2021...
TrueFactsStated I can see why some take exception to “lynching” in political rhetoric. But I don’t think “Witch Hunt,” or “Bashing” is any better. I guess trivializing the burning of someone at stake is ok.
TrueFactsStated No integrity Hogan! You will go down w despicable Trump
TrueFactsStated Another gaslighting session by the Trump administration. They are a reprehensible bunch.
But, but, fat donnie says he has the best words, he watches his words very carefully, he’s a freaking genius, so was he lying or are you just trying to spin a story?
Fascist Kenneth the Page
Only in America and Westminster.
what an arsehole he is
“You can’t argue with a good economy,” he said, as he lapped up urine from a large trough filled by his captor.
Co-conspirator who prays every night FOX NEWS will throw him a lifeline.
Hogan Gidley? Where’d he come from? Is that his real name?
As he tries to shape the bull 💩 narrative.
Delusional
My English is not good enough to do understand them all , sad
If the House does not follow SOME REASONABLE DUE PROCESS procedure, the Senate will likely REJECT OUTRIGHT the Impeachment Inquiry!! And Reuter’s is not telling this to their viewers/readers!
Let me say the facts and the truth. Yes, some people, and not people are upset with Trump all of the time. I am not and I am people too.
That should be a clue that his word choices suck. It's not a defense to continue being offensive...
Trump is dumber than a stump.
Whos this guy, who's got an answer for everything?
Makes sense I guess, in the stupidest way possible
Diversion discussion
Also, Judging by his past comments including inciting violence against and causing the death of minorities, many Americans believe this is yet another signal, a call to arms and that he would reinstate this “National Past Time,” if it were up to him.
Trump should really play it in his E M T head before he says ANYTHING!$
Lock him up
Words are hurtful.
Distinctly displeasing choice of necktie here.
gogan hidley
So take him back to sit with first graders to learn how to talk as a president of a country firstgraders
No, people are upset when he uses the same words as Democrats, double standard hypocrites.
gogan hidley
Trump distraction by design for bill taylor nailing trump's guilt for high crimes and misdemeanors
Well take him back with first grader so he can Talk as a president
Hogan Gidley
hogangidley45 you poor young thing. Don't you know how being complicit & involved with this dirty mess can and will follow your whole career.
If he wasn’t prepared to face public scrutiny, he shouldn’t have run for public office.
And how many Democrats are outraged at Democrats for using the same term?
Yes, that ought to take care of it. Good job Hogan
He speaks the language of tabloids while the world yearns for PBS.
Again Reuters is trash. Do your job.
People need to get a life...
I have zero idea who Hogan Gidley is, but GTFO with your double-breasted suit, tie bar and kerchief. I lends you no credibility whatsoever.
Nicely tailored for a Racist. Beats the Walmart variety.
This mfer named Hogan Gidley ?
Shouldn’t that be alarming?
Did the battery in your boys phone finally die? I’ve been wondering what phone he had. I’ve never owned one that held a charge so long. After you finish him off, let us know. That’s one hell of a battery.
Look at him, no life jacket. He plans to go down with the ship.
This is the internet age. Billions process the information much faster than ever before. Yes his language and words will forever be scrutinized and criticized when inappropriately used. It’s just reality like it or not.
I have underwear older than this lad.
This guy is in an alternate reality.
hogangidley45 you will be lost in obscurity very soon
If Hogan Gidley has a brain, he has the hardest job in the world. He is acting like it is the easiest job. Humm... co_rapunzel4 CBSNews KamalaHarris EL1421 joanwalsh soledadobrien cnn MSNBC
When the mob attacks with prejudice, and hangs... isn’t racist and isn’t ancient news! A global form of punishment...and the mob is as ignorant just different colors?
This is what Trump doesn't want you to pay attention to.
Oh my Lord!
'People are upset...' Who cares?! Being upset and offended is now a pass time. Nobody really cares, they just pretend to. God I hope we get hit by an asteroid soon! That way we'll have real problems for which to be GENUINELY upset about. I'm so tired of the fake outrage; tired!!
Where leftists furious when Joe 'Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent' Biden said it of the Clinton impeachment Where they fuck.
listen up hoedown tho many debtors and creditors of the rico potus may like to lynch him probably a few bets he,s welched on and trump u customers to this treatments like lynching he,s gone to far and that pos graham from strange fruit bloody central to. assholes of a feather
These people have no morals ... just ignorant in everything they do!!!
Mr. Gidley, you could do so much better...you're articulate, good looking...wear nice suits...you might think about updating your resume and start looking. I think your boss's tenure is at best, 'tenuous'.
Because he sux
A House GOP aide passed along AP story from October 4, 1998 during Clinton impeachment, when RepJerryNadler is quoted: 'In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob.'
It doesn’t matter what the President said, you in the media will find a way to make him look bad. Even if it’s the very same words Democrats have used in the past. Reporting on this Reuter’s proves you are part of the problem
EVERY African American is furious right now over the word and terms lynching / lynch mob being used Let's test this, if you're an 'African-American' / Black American, are YOU furious right now? *Don't vote unless you're black. I'll know, I have access to your webcams!
I thought Hogan Gidley was a name for a perfume.
Where in the FUCK did they get THIS clown? Get the hell OUT of here.
People vs humans
...and it's all very tedious.
Nothing to defend. Anyone can see the fanatical focus to remove the President. The voters are smarter than the Dems think they are.
Freedom of speech? President of US not entitled to it also?
he needs a good......
Who in hell's name is this idiot?
That’s the excuse? realDonaldTrump always does something wrong, so it is okay?
Because he says moronic, racist, baseless, and false things all the time.
trump is a traitor.he is going down and the gop with him
The sooner he is rid of the better
“In every sense”. Really?
He gets re education everytime he speaks against trump.
Lindsay is it possible for you to show us what a lynching is on the Senate floor? Can you demonstrate we would love to watch it. Shame on you. You need to come out of the closet
We are working on it
LindseyGrahamSC
It’s true, when opinion is the news, and fact is opinions... Times aren’t progressing they’re alienating all in microscopes!
traitor
If Trump didn’t want to be investigated, he shouldn’t have done unconstitutional, shady stuff. He’s running the country like his business.
So true
fucklindsey
Give him an hour, he'll say the opposite.
Biil Clinton screws an intern and you lose your mind.....Trump screws the country....the kurds....the immigrants...the list goes on and on...and it's a witch hunt?
No justice. Form a posse and hang him. Yep.... it is a lynching.
It’s a shame
What has happened to Lindsey Graham? What dirt do they have on him?
Donald Trump’s sneering lawlessness and stupefying corruption continue to escalate, it’s confounding, at least to me, why his base still supports him Trump however is by far probably the most corrupt and crooked president this country has ever had
It’s a lynching in “every sense of the word” except for the part where the orange filth is stringing from a tree.
This... is literally the process. The CONSTITUTIONAL process. Oh, also enjoy explaining to your voters how you have literally no fucking idea how to handle historically significant, racially sensitive subjects. I seriously cannot WAIT to watch harrisonjaime crush you.
ignorant racist impeachthemf impeachnow NeedToImpeach impeachment draintheswamp ImpeachAndRemove
Where troops those trump send them to Iraq he should bring them back home
Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back!
So extrajudicial that it’s IN THE CONSTITUTION.
100% true.
When it's about Trump....who cares about principles, this country, national security, or the safety and wellbeing of the American people. Just another day at the office for Lying Lindsey...splashing round the swamp fighting to hold on to his BIG ole piece of the American pie.
Judging by his past comments including inciting violence causing the death of minorities, many Americans believe this is yet another of his signals and that he would reinstate this “National Past Time,” if it weren’t for good men -Patriots-confronting his hatred. Frat boys.
Someone should ask him now about Amb. Bill Taylor. Taylor has publicly accused Trump of a quid pro quo. And this was a guy Trump got put in place this year.
The greatest fence straddler that ever lived, ever.
Yep. Lindsey is 100% correct.
Oh...Miss Lindsay..🤦♀️
Dear sir, if you were on the receiving end of something that even seemed mildly like a true lynching you would be on your knees begging for an apology for ever thinking such language was appropriate.
You forgot to wear your Klan hood LindseyGrahamSC
Just remember to be as outraged when Biden said it
Imagine if our country was not filled with complete idiots that think like this one. We'd probably be 500 years ahead of where we are. Darn it.
Is something illegal or unconstitutional about the manner in which congressional democrats are conducting this investigation?
Apalling
poll/ 50% of Americans say Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Overall, 41% approve of Trump's handling of the presidency while 57% disapprove. (CNN)
Oh Lindsey...
Sect of State?
Bank robber’s family complains about bank robber being arrested after being caught on security cameras and handing teller a note written on the back of his utility bill.
LindseyGrahamSC now just makes me sick.
Beta male defends his alpha male. That’s what they do.
Senator Graham, with all due respect, one day you are concerned one day you are not. If I did that in my daily life my friends would think I had a mental problem.
LindseyGrahamSC
This guy has a real 'mad hatter' vibe. He should wear a lavender suit and tie and a pink top hat to really look the part.
What a compromised douchenozzle.
How much evidence of wrong doing do you need LindseyGrahamSC ?!? You are becoming a traitor to this country by your constant defense of this man. This will come back on you too because you will not defend our country against constant attack from Donald Trump.
Yet what they did to kathygriffin was, what, normal?
Are you saying that there is a process Congress is not following? Please advise on the proper process. LindseyGrahamSC gtconway3d maggieNYT NicolleDWallace
LindseyGrahamSC No one cares if you are gay! Please just liberate yourself and stop this ridiculous mess of Donald Trump holding something over you.
Russia has something on him....
LindseyGrahamSC - You are un-American. Not caring about the President of the USA using his office for self-enrichment AGAINST the public interest and disparaging the Constitution as 'phony.' Shame on you!
This is all about using false arguments about process to deflect from the corruption at play here. LindseyGrahamSC is complicit in that corruption. He is in-American insofar as he is undermining faithful execution of the Constitution MoscowMitch
lindsey graham is trump's admiral james stockdale
Nothing like doubling down on stupid.
What's wrong with the word? I think this is what exactly is happening right now, lynching! Even Joe Biden agreed back in 1998, 'impeachment is...partisan lynching!' I'd agree with old Joe on this one.
What about the 'process' on health care Lindsey Graham? As long as you get to throw a bunch of people off theirs and make boatloads of money for your corporate pals, who cares about not inviting Dems to that process? Who cares about voting on legislation that the House has passed
Two words for ya.. DEEP THROAT.
LindseyGrahamSC I can't believe you were an Air Force JAG Officer I use to respect. smh
He’s dirty too. He has no option at this point. ImpeachmentIsComing
It's so hard to understand Sen Graham, while talking live from Trump's colon.
This guy is from South Carolina right?
No shit. People care more about their petty feelings than they care about the greater good
He is correct ...
Cry baby crooks 🍼
LindseyGrahamSC, what does he have on you? What could he possibly have to make you act like the biggest of sycophants? Your buddy John McCain would be absolutely ashamed of what you have become. He stood for something; you stand for nothing but re-election, like all the GOP.
He is right StopTheSchiffShow
This is the new American democracy, founded by the FAKE media , good luck society!
Lindsey Graham just makes me sad now.
Media triggering intensifies
Graham is so gay for Trump.
In EVERY sense
Bad time to 2X down.
Race again. So it is okay to use word like concentration camp but not okay to use the work lynch when lynch is not even the word associated with the kkk period of America
Just to make sure it’s shared more than once
Na he simply doesn’t know the meaning of the word toodumb
The left: *holds up Trump's severed head* *assassinates his effigy* *tells everyone he's a traitor* *go from failed investigations to a failing impeachment* Trump: 'This is a lynching!' The left: 'Oh my god that's horrible how dare he say that'
Ask what democrats called it back in 1998? Are is it just ok for them to use that word lynching
Kneegrow, please.
You're welcome.
Just a flame to deflect today’s testimony from Bill Taylor,who is delivering overwhelming evidence of crime
And the Dems said it about the Clinton impeachment....
So unbecoming of a world leader.
But blackface gets a season pass........
gameshowhost
Stop your bull crap. Nadler said it in 1998 referring to Bill Clinton's impeachment. Get lost with your fake outrage.
Call it what it is....
More fake outrage from the fake news media.
Wasn't that what Nader called it during the Clinton time period?
Racists like RapeyMcPOTUS just can't help themselves 🤦
Wow Reuters, talk about making the big switch from news organization to Entertainment Rag. Well done it was seamless.
You know that was not what he was referring to, quit the lying!
Lynching was not the word to describe hanging of black people. It is the word to describe the extrajudicial hanging of ANYONE. A horse thief for instance could be lynched without a trial. I don’t like Trump, but let’s not make up words or meanings please.
Dear President Trump, If you were being lynched, you'd know it.
Frankly speaking Impeachment is NOT lynching ! Why is so scared ? 😀
Actually if you would look up the meaning. It fits exactly..
FakeNews alert! Lynchings are a thing outside of a specific period. Watch ‘Hang ‘em High’ if you need another example...
The man knows. He’s supervised many of them in his younger days
Ups! 🙊
Oh My Lindsey Graham, I dieu claire, more luxurious whiite cake from t(RUMP)? What will Nancy think of yo' indulgence? She might point her lil' alabaster finga' at all that whiite GOP DROP...DRIP.💧...DRIP....DRIP💦 of de'Nile.!©
Ecsullie It IS a lynching, LIB Reuters!😒
TheLastRefuge2 Good for him. Lynching has no racial connotations unless you're a Democrat and view blacks as inferior.
TheLastRefuge2 He always defends on the unimportant things that have no consequence, he is all talk.
TheLastRefuge2 Lynching? you mean the same word CNN used during Benghazi 'The high-tech lynching of Hillary Clinton' or the word Democrats used describing the Impeachment of Bill Clinton that word Lynching
MakeRussiaGreatAgain KurdsBetrayedByTrump
Is gram and other Republicans co-conspirators to organized political crime & criminal activities?whats left of the Constitution, if we don’t punish people of wealth? Should we add college degrees with weapons charges? They are using them as weapons for wealth
resign Lindsey Graham
It would be so much better if he just said 'no comment'
This hypocrite still talking? Not the way he presented in Bill Clinton case...
Lynching has acquired new meaning in 2019! Oxford Dictionary,.please accept it immediately !
so like Trump--Lindsey uses black people to defend Trump's thug behavior
LynchingLindsey
I thought Republicans love lynching !
You are probably used to using the term lynching…
I am sure that the Congress would allow the president to come and defend himself… That could simplify everything…
Really liking the New Gop, except MittRomney - fight the bastards. Go realDonaldTrump
LindseyGrahamSC
Thats LeningradLindsey for you.
Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman would be at least a little proud of the man who holds his seat today. LindseyGrahamSC
I see Lindsey is back on the d.
NO TRUMP IS NOT BEING LYNCHED “Lynching, an act of terror meant to spread fear among blacks, served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres” Shame on ANYONE defending his comment
The term lynching is not exclusively a racist term---it has been used for a long time to describe mob justice...period -end of your bullshit narrative
Graham is crackers. Pass him some warm milk.
The senator's face is not the right color. Is he ill?
Good job following those talking points LindseyGrahamSC - can’t wait to see why you are so blindly defending this process.
Yes, Lindsey defends 'lynching'...it's the Trump way.
Absolutely a political lynching!!! Trying to bring down a innocent duly elected President is a treasonous act!!! This coup from the do nothing dems has to stop!! So do something LindseyGrahamSC NOW!!!
You are a disgrace to our country LindseyGrahamSC . What happened to the man I Respected in the 90's and 2000's.
Putin. Controls America folks open your eyes Russia is the 1 superpower currently look around you for God's sake
LindseyGrahamSC realDonaldTrump Is that trump's daddy I see standing in the front of this picture!? Lynching crookedtRump
Lynching to vilify the legality of Impeachment. Hyperbolic rhetoric is used when there is no appeal to the intellect, and there is no defense of Trump that does not insult my intelligence while impugning the intellect of the defender. LapdogLindsey offers only the latest.
I hope I live long enough to see the video they have on him.
like spanky would say, FAKE NOOSE
Lindsey knows his lynchings.
LindseyGrahamSC Let’s see how you spin the testimony of the Ukraine envoy that trump is an extortionist. Looks like you have the proverbial spooch all over your face.
That's some ignorant shit to say!! How many people do you know we're able to voice their opinions about their own lynching? Yeah, totally the same thing. IgnatBastard LindseyGrahamSC realDonaldTrump
LindseyGrahamSC seems to think that he’ll get more if he sells his souls by slice after thin thin slice. Fact is, it doesn’t matter how he carves himself up. He’s selling something that no moral/ethical operator has any interest in buying.
I have to admit, you can't even see where they removed his soul or his dignity. Bang up job.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not two brain cells to rub together, that one! Even rats know when to leave a sinking ship.
Yep, it’s a Lynching
he has been found guilty by way of the kangaroo court of opinion .
I hope Not One black voter is for you.
Like Loretta lynching? OR like lone tree at the edge of town?
Graham seems to be on tranquillisers
Ever since he lost his North Star, John McCain, LindseyGrahamSC has floundered and flipped and flopped himself lower and lower. He's done. Too lost to do America any good. ResignLindsyGraham ResignLindsyGraham ResignLindsyGraham ResignLindsyGraham
Yep Dem. Rep. Gregory Meeks on Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998: 'What we are doing here is not a prosecution, it is a persecution and indeed it is a political lynching.'
Good for you Senator Graham!!!!!
Result of a 2 party oligarchy system (MOB) of criminals, thieves, crooks, liars, grifters, racists and murderers. Which is the entire GOP Republican Party and most of the DNC Democratic Party too. Accomplices to those crimes are of course FoxNews CNN MSNBC Truthfulness101
The term was appropriate. Other appropriate terms are 'thieves' and 'authoritarian thugs.' Thank you President Trump, and keep up the excellent work!
Great LindseyGrahamSC Now do what you said you were going to do with Ukraine, don't disappoint us or you will regret it. If dems impeach trump you will lose your job.
Lindsey Olin Graham, South Carolina's hometown traitorous scoundrel. ImpeachAndRemove
Is he ever done licking Trump's goomba? 😩
Yep
WHAT DOES TRUMP HAVE ON HIM?
Grand Wizardlike of him to say.. ...
centralparkfive was a lynching by realDonaldTrump
He does not want to be reelected
Prob is LindseyGrahamSC is a traitor and racist and Russian a asset
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