When the President whined that the impeachment process was a ‘lynching’, he was hit with immediate backlash:‘What the hell is wrong with you?’  Black Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush angrily tweeted.

South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, said ‘lynching’ is ‘one word no president ought to apply to himself’

When you look at the facts — the Tuskegee Institute says 3,446 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the U.S.– this is a horrific and inappropriate comparison.

Rep. Karen Bass, a California Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, also took to Twitter to lambast the President:

‘You are comparing a constitutional process to the PREVALENT and SYSTEMATIC brutal torture of people in THIS COUNTRY that looked like me?’ Bass tweeted.

It was left to White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley to try and clean up Trump’s mess:

‘The president was not trying to compare himself to the horrific history in this country at all.’

As you’ll remember, Congress made lynching murders a federal hate crime in 2018, equating them with other forms of racial terrorism.

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