Democrats were quick to attack President Trump on Twitter for calling their impeachment efforts “a lynching.”

Early Tuesday morning, the president tweeted, “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!”

Of course, the Democrats used this as an excuse to call Trump a “white supremacist” and his comparison “abhorrent” and “despicable.”

Beto O’Rourke tweeted, “The legacy of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and suppression is alive and well in every part of this country—including in the White House where the president is a white supremacist.”

Senator Kamala Harris fired back at Trump by tweeting, “Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation’s history, as is this President. We’ll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.”

Twitter users pointed out that Senator Harris used the phrase “modern day lynching,” when she responded to the backlash from the Jussie Smollett hoax.

Even Joe Biden put his two cents in by tweeting “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.”

Senator Cory Booker tweeted, “Lynching is an act of terror used to uphold white supremacy. Try again.”

Julian Castro wrote, “It’s beyond shameful to use the word ‘lynching’ to describe being held accountable for your actions.”

Many other Democrats expressed their outrage of President Trump’s use of the word “lynching,” but it was perfectly okay for Democrats to use the the word “lynching” to describe impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Dem. Rep. Gregory Meeks said, “What we are doing here is not a prosecution, it is a persecution and indeed it is a political lynching”

Democrat Rep. Danny Davis (Illinois) on the impeachment of Bill Clinton: “I will not vote for this nightmare before Christmas. I will not vote for this lynching in the people’s House. I will vote against these resolutions.”

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In 1998, Jerry Nadler used the word “lynch mob” when he commented about impeachment proceedings against Clinton. Nadler’s comment was published in an Associated Press article:

“I am the president’s defender in the sense that I haven’t seen anything yet that would rise, in my opinion, to the level of impeachable offense. … 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.”

Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott compared Clinton’s Impeachment in 1998 to a “political lynch mob.”

“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..,” said McDermott.

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Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters “this is a mob taking over the rule of law” and the House’s impeachment inquiry is a “political lynching.”

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