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Biden Apologizes for Referring to Clinton Impeachment as a ‘Partisan Lynching’ in 1998
National Review ^ | October 23, 2019 | Tobias Hoonhout

Posted on 10/23/2019 7:52:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former vice president Joe Biden apologized Tuesday night for calling Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment a “partisan lynching.”

Biden’s comments were unearthed after President Trump faced criticism Tuesday for characterizing House Democrats’ impeachment efforts as a “lynching” on Twitter.

Trump’s comments sparked a bipartisan controversy. Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) responded by saying “the President never should have made that comparison,” while Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) called the use of the term “disgraceful.” Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) defended Trump, calling the impeachment inquiry “a lynching in every sense” and “un-American.”

Biden joined in and tweeted a response to Trump, calling the president’s comments “despicable.”

SNIP

After the Biden campaign initially declined to comment, Biden tweeted an apology before pivoting to attack Trump, saying “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.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; apology; biden; dopeydems; joebiden; lynching; x42
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1 posted on 10/23/2019 7:52:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Too late.


2 posted on 10/23/2019 7:55:17 AM PDT by madison10
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To: yesthatjallen
Video - Throwback: Dems Call Clinton Impeachment…A Lynching
3 posted on 10/23/2019 7:57:20 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: yesthatjallen

P*ssy


4 posted on 10/23/2019 7:59:04 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: madison10

Joe is very Slow and he just got around to it ,LOL


5 posted on 10/23/2019 8:02:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen

Back when I was 3 years-old, I said “poo-poo” and giggled. Do I need to apologize?


6 posted on 10/23/2019 8:02:56 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: yesthatjallen

“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.”

Lynching ... Brings visions of White Robed men on horseback and 99% DEMOCRATS waving nooses...Ah yes..the undercover democrat army ready to ‘wipe out’ the unarmed enemy....


7 posted on 10/23/2019 8:04:37 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: yesthatjallen

As a young man, Joe Biden brandished a chain link and threatened to lynch a black man he called Esther (Williams) at a public swimming pool.


8 posted on 10/23/2019 8:08:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: butlerweave
His campaign needed time to decide how to respond after he accused Trump of doing what he did.

His apology comes with caveat; 'My comment wasn't racially charged because I'm not a racist. Trump is the racist'.

9 posted on 10/23/2019 8:09:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“THEY gon’ put Y’ALL back in chains!” - Joe Biden imperial grand wizard of the Democrat Klan Party


10 posted on 10/23/2019 8:09:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

Eat a bag of dicks, Joe.


11 posted on 10/23/2019 8:14:56 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: yesthatjallen

Biden should apologize for stealing air.


12 posted on 10/23/2019 8:16:00 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: yesthatjallen

Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) responded by saying “the President never should have made that comparison,”

If the comparison applies here and it does then he made a valid comparison Ms Collins it is about time you stop being a boot licker and stand up for America and Americans!


13 posted on 10/23/2019 8:24:24 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: yesthatjallen

He should know something about lynching, having lynched Clarence Thomas.


14 posted on 10/23/2019 8:37:02 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, as long as he’s sorry . . .

I mean, it’s not like he’s a racist republican.


15 posted on 10/23/2019 8:40:24 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: butlerweave

Indeed Joe is a slow thinker very slow and clouded one at that.


16 posted on 10/23/2019 8:52:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Well, as long as he’s sorry . . . I mean, it’s not like he’s a racist republican.

That's the spirit!

17 posted on 10/23/2019 8:53:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Vaduz

bttt


18 posted on 10/23/2019 8:54:01 AM PDT by timestax
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s just a word. The Liberal Supremacists are forcing most to grovel to their demands of semantic absolutism.


19 posted on 10/23/2019 8:57:13 AM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Kinda late. He’s obviously a committed racist.


20 posted on 10/23/2019 9:06:51 AM PDT by Brilliant
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