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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Joe Biden Blasts Trump's Lynching Impeachment Comment as 'Abhorrent'--But in 1998 Warned Clinton...
...Warned Clinton Impeachment Could Be ‘Partisan Lynching’
[link:https://www.mediaite.com/news/joe-biden-blasts-trumps-lynching-impeachment-comment-as-abhorrent-but-in-1998-warned-clinton-impeachment-could-be-partisan-lynching/|
By Reed Richardson Oct 22nd, 2019, 8:16 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted as “abhorrent” President Donald Trump’s comparison of his imminent impeachment to a “lynching,” but Biden used the same language more than 20 years ago to warn the impeachment of President Bill Clinton could be seen as a “partisan lynching.”
Lynchings were part of a concentrated campaign of white supremacist terror that lasted nearly 80 years and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 black people across the United States. According to a new CNN report, then-Senator Biden also invoked these mass, racially-based, extrajudicial killings to describe the imminent House impeachment of Clinton in a CNN appearance in October 1998.
“Even if the President should be impeached, history is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching or whether or not it was something that in fact met the standard, the very high bar, that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense,” Biden said on CNN at the time.
[link:https://www.mediaite.com/news/joe-biden-blasts-trumps-lynching-impeachment-comment-as-abhorrent-but-in-1998-warned-clinton-impeachment-could-be-partisan-lynching/|
By Reed Richardson Oct 22nd, 2019, 8:16 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted as “abhorrent” President Donald Trump’s comparison of his imminent impeachment to a “lynching,” but Biden used the same language more than 20 years ago to warn the impeachment of President Bill Clinton could be seen as a “partisan lynching.”
Lynchings were part of a concentrated campaign of white supremacist terror that lasted nearly 80 years and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 black people across the United States. According to a new CNN report, then-Senator Biden also invoked these mass, racially-based, extrajudicial killings to describe the imminent House impeachment of Clinton in a CNN appearance in October 1998.
“Even if the President should be impeached, history is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching or whether or not it was something that in fact met the standard, the very high bar, that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense,” Biden said on CNN at the time.
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden