*Poor, poor orange a-hole in the White House. He’s once again playing the victim and this time he went lower than low to make his point.
In another response to the Democratic lead US House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of him, President Donald Trump is characterizing their Constitutional actions as a “lynching” of him.
Essentially, what he said via a tweet early Tuesday morning is: “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching.”
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
Well, Twitter wasn’t having Trump’s outright deception and unique cultural appropriation of the black experience by comparing his possible impeachment to murders committed by mobs of racist white people.
Congressional Black Caucus member and Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush, demanded that Trump take down the post.
You think this impeachment is a LYNCHING? What the hell is wrong with you?
Do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched, since the inception of this country, by people who look like you. Delete this tweet. https://t.co/oTMhWo4awR
— Bobby L. Rush (@RepBobbyRush) October 22, 2019
Meanwhile, folks on social media reminded folks of the statements Trump made in 1989 about the Central Park 5, now known as the Exonerated Five.
With more on that, here’s what NewsOne is reporting:
When the five Black and Latino teens were accused of raping a White woman jogger in Central Park, Trump paid for a full-page ad calling for the death penalty less than two weeks after they were falsely accused. The ad was placed in four New York City newspapers with the headline, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”
The ads, which cost about $85,000, were published on May 1, 1989, in The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Post and New York Newsday. A popular business mogul then, Trump claimed there was no more “law and order” in New York City.
“At what point did we cross the line from the fine and noble pursuit of genuine civil liberties to the reckless and dangerously permissive atmosphere which allows criminals of every age to beat and rape a helpless woman and then laugh at her family’s anguish,” he said at the time.
The Central Park Five — Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise — became known as the Exonerated Five when in 2002 convicted murderer Matias Reyes confessed to raping Trisha Meili that day in 1989, which was confirmed by DNA evidence. The Exonerated Five were awarded $41 million in 2014 from the city.
The site goes on to note that for or Trump to compare the impeachment inquiry against him to a lynching is peak hypocrisy, considering he was already calling for death penalties before Black teens could even make it to court. The friendly folks on Twitter reminded the president of this, with political commentator Tiffany Cross posting a picture of Trump’s “Death Penalty” ad and calling out the president for his deflection tactics that she saw right through.
This was an attempted lynching ??as old as the constitution and as American as apple pie. But this is the type of response you wanted. To take the focus off your illegal behavior that the #BlueLivesMatter party either celebrate or ignore. #gtfohwtbs We see you. pic.twitter.com/VZdFGGpbFx
— Tiffany Cross (@TiffanyDCross) October 22, 2019
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