Joe Biden suggested Bill Clinton's impeachment was a 'partisan lynching' in 1998

Business Insider ^ | 10/22/2019 | Eliza Relman

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Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned President Donald Trump's use of the term "lynching" to describe the House's impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, calling Trump's comments "despicable."

In 1998, Biden similarly suggested that former President Bill Clinton's impeachment was a "partisan lynching" in an interview with CNN, according to newly unearthed video along with a transcript seen by Insider.

"[H]istory 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 very high bar that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense," Biden said in 1998.

Biden wasn't the only high-profile Democrat to describe Clinton's impeachment in these terms. Rep. Jerry Nadler called the potential releasing of a videotape during the impeachment proceedings a "lynch mob" in 1998 Reuters article.

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Democrats have no shame.

Other Dems besides Biden and Nadler used this word then.

Dems tried to lynch Clarence Thomas, the Duke Lacrosse players, Kavanaugh, the Covington kids, and now Trump.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Also...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3788314/posts

[Michael.SF.]

Nice Mullet Joe!

[Smellin Salt]

Today I learned something. Joe Biden had a mullet in 1998

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Can’t say I didn’t try.

I put the name Joe Biden in for titles in the search bar and that thread did not come up. Should have just used Biden I guess.

Oh well...

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I thought the same thing.

[mrsmith]

Imagine if the media had to confront the Democrat Party history of lynchings…

No! Everyone look at something else!

[crusty old prospector]

Drag out the blue dress.

[Brown Deer]

Remember it was, Democrat Hatton William Summers of Texas, who opposed anti-lynching laws during his 17 terms in the House of Representatives, arguing that the individual states could handle the problem of mob violence against African Americans.

[Fightin Whitey]

All the dipstick Leftist media, including blubberlip Brett Behr, have never even heard of the scores of shady cowboys who were strung up in the old West...whether they had a thing to do with any crime or not.

WHITE COWBOYS.

Do all these jackasses actually think that "Lynch" is somehow a black-owned word?

[reg45]

And then there was the “high tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas.

[Fightin Whitey]

Today I learned something. Joe Biden had a mullet in 1998

He did? Who et it, and whose mule did he make 'em et??

[a fool in paradise]

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

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Why write “suggested”? Why not “said”?

[Bulwinkle]

Use their words against them:
To use Joe Biden words, the Democrats are engage in a “PARTISAN LYNCHING” of trump.

[hanamizu]

Other Dems besides Biden and Nadler used this word then.

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And there’s the problem. We expect a minimal logical consistency from Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself). Of course Dems called Clinton’s impeachment a lynching. Of course Trump’s use of the word to describe what is happening to him is completely racist and inappropriate. Can’t you see that?

I know a history professor who just wrote a book about the last lynching of a black in Illinois. a poor black man was basically seized from the sheriff in Cairo and hanged. His body was then burnt. It was a horrible event. The fact that a white man was lynched the same day in the same town interests absolutely no one.

[TigersEye]

Biden is an expert on lynching. Didn’t he lead the Clarence Thomas lynch party?

[mrsmith]

Thank you.

ALL the Southern lynchings were performed by, and defended by, Democrats.