Here's Video After Video of Democrats Invoking 'Lynching' Before They Decided It's Wrong
President Donald Trump’s “lynching” tweet was far from his best moment. There was plenty of outrage, which wasn’t surprising.
What was surprising was how often Democrats invoked lynching as a metaphor in the bad old days, particularly during the Clinton impeachment process.
So, in case you missed it, here was the Trump tweet which caused all of the commotion:
So some day, 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. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2019
“So some day, 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,” he tweeted Tuesday.
“All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!”
Everyone on the left pretty much lost it over this one — and one would expect that they would. However, there were plenty of them who had previously used lynching language to describe political maneuvers they disagreed with.
The most notable of these was former Vice President Joe Biden, who had chastised Trump already: “Impeachment is not ‘lynching,’ it is part of our Constitution. Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It’s despicable,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate tweeted.
Impeachment is not “lynching,” it is part of our Constitution. Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It’s despicable. https://t.co/QcC25vhNeb
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2019
Impeachment is not “lynching.” Except, of course, when it is:
While Biden has called Trump’s lynching comments “abhorrent” and “despicable,” in 1998 appearance on CNN, Biden said impeachment could end up being viewed as a “partisan lynching.” https://t.co/4jGo8hSQSZhttps://t.co/6p210g7M6l pic.twitter.com/UkJiXLsHOG
— andrew kaczynski? (@KFILE) October 22, 2019
Biden would apologize for this:
This wasn’t the right word to use and I’m sorry about that. Trump on the other hand chose his words deliberately today in his use of the word lynching and continues to stoke racial divides in this country daily. https://t.co/mHfFC8HluZ
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 23, 2019
Meanwhile, here’s Jim McDermott, who served in the House of Representatives until 2017, also speaking about the Clinton impeachment:
Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott compared Clinton’s Impeachment n 1998 to #Lynching:
“We’re taking a step down the road to becoming a political Lynch Mob… We are going to find a rope find a tree and ask a bunch of questions later..”
I heard clapping not outrage.. pic.twitter.com/CxUjtv3gMF
— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois, who’s still in the House, compared the 1998 Clinton impeachment to “impeaching affirmative action, impeaching women’s rights.” He also called it a “lynching in the people’s House.”
“I will not vote for this Lynching in the People’s house” pic.twitter.com/YHkBEWWdVR
— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, meanwhile, said that “indeed it is a political lynching.”
“Indeed it is a Political Lynching” pic.twitter.com/tNSnYDcLHW
— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
Then-Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid of Nevada, meanwhile, also called it a “lynch mob.”
Democratic Senator Harry Reid:
“The Lynch Mob though, Mr. President, now has a new leader” pic.twitter.com/kOqtMpgx0x— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
And then there’s Jerry Nadler:
Nadler: “I wish we could get this over with quickly. … In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob.” https://t.co/lHWWFXW5eE
— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
While it wasn’t on video, Rep. Jerry Nadler, now the head of the House Judiciary Committee, said in 1998, “I wish we could get this over with quickly. … In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob,” according to Breitbart.
Nadler: “I wish we could get this over with quickly. … In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob.” https://t.co/lHWWFXW5eE
— ALX ?? ? (@alx) October 22, 2019
So, these are the people who thought that lynching was a good metaphor for impeachment even when it was clearly more justified given the specter of perjury.
Now, they’re either the ones expressing outrage, or they’re allied with people who are.
It’s not that times have changed.
We knew in 1998 that “lynching” or “lynch mob” was an awfully evil thing to invoke.
Back then, though, the media didn’t care.
Now it’s in hyperdrive over Trump’s remark.
The media ought to admit they dropped the ball on Democrats’ tactics to shield Bill Clinton 21 years ago or that they simply don’t care when there’s not a narrative to weave.
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