Reaction: Donald Trump compares impeachment to ‘lynching’

US president accused of ‘throwing racial bombs with his Twitter outburst’

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Donald Trump has come under fire after he referred to impeachment proceedings against him as a “lynching”.

The US president wrote on Twitter: “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.”

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