Joe Biden attempted to walk back comments he made in 1998 likening the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton to a “partisan lynching.”

After condemning Mr Trump, Mr Biden apologises for using the same term metaphorically in 1998.

Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Princeton University professor and network contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. reacted to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defending President Donald Trump's tweet where he called the ongoing impeachment process a "lynching." | Clips

While the President and some diehard supporters trade in claims that they are America's true victims, their rhetoric suggests another possibility—a tacit admission, perhaps, that there is no worse fate in American history than being treated like black folk, w…

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

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The former vice president had criticised Trump for using the term to describe the impeachment proceedings against him only hours before a clip of him doing the same thing re-emerged.

Former Vice President Joe Biden offered an apology for previously referring to the Clinton impeachment as a "partisan lynching" hours after he condemned President Trump for referring to his own impeachment with the same term.

Former Vice President Joe Biden offered an apology for previously referring to the Clinton impeachment as a "partisan lynching" hours after he condemned President Trump for referring to his own impeachment with the same term.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men had bludgeoned...

"This wasn't the right word to use and I'm sorry about that," Biden tweeted. "Trump on the other hand chose his words deliberately"

"This wasn’t the right word to use and I’m sorry about that," he tweeted.

The president’s defenders pointed to instances when Democrats used the same language to defend Bill Clinton.

In a tweet Tuesday, President Trump compared the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching." That characterization drew condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, as well as some Republicans. CBSN political contributor and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright and Re…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stirring up painful memories of America's racist past, President Donald Trump on Tuesday compared the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry to a lynching, a practice once widespread...

The controversy over President Trump’s assertion that the impeachment probe was a “lynching” came as the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was being deposed under subpoena behind closed doors.

Several other Democrats also used the term in reference to the former president's impeachment in 1998.

White House hopeful Joe Biden has condemned President Trump for likening the impeachmen...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday again waded into America's fraught racial history by labeling the impeachment inquiry against him a "lynching" - language that conjured memories of decades of killings of thousands of black people - drawing swift biparti…

The White House on Tuesday pushed back on criticism from Democrats and the establishment media for using the word "lynching."

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump's comparison of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to a "lynching," but in a 1998 interview, the then-senator from Delaware also invoked the term in reference to impeachment.

A quick online search reveals the irony of the Democrats and Never Trumpers' outrage after President Trump tweeted the word "lynching."

'It is a reflection of the very real trajectory of our nation and the very repugnant evil of racism'

After President Trump tweeted that the impeachment inquiry against him was similar to “a lynching,” lawmakers spoke out about the comparison.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday did not endorse President Donald Trump's comparison of the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching," saying, "That's not the language I would use" and "I don't agree with that language, it's pretty simple."

RT @TnETnHa: He is the same person who k!lled Mohsin Shaikh in Pune who was the first victim of lynching in 2014 ,and look at the justice s…

RT @tressiemcphd: Lynching music.

RT @tressiemcphd: Lynching music.

RT @NMAAHC: #OTD in 1862, journalist & civil rights activist Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, MS. Wells spent her life exposing the…

RT @tressiemcphd: Lynching music.

RT @tressiemcphd: Lynching music.

RT @ROYALMRBADNEWS: Along with the fact The BBC ARE CRIMINALS! THEY COMMITTED A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME by stoking the fire of The Dimapur Lync…

RT @Jalane_Schmidt: 125 years ago, a grand jury in Charlottesville indicted a dead man instead of those who murdered him. A motion has been…

RT @Yay_Bryce: Rubin Stacy's lynching in 1935 echoes in today's strife! https://t.co/T8eVStPGt8

RT @SanatanPrabhat: .@BBCNews JUST IN Jharkhand: 10 sent to jail in India for lynching Muslim man (https://t.co/9pqNd3Afa7) Another read:…

RT @Singh__Azad: Where are the #hindus crying about lynching? Were these men in mandir? You dare to lecture Sikhs on how to treat someone…

RT @ROYALMRBADNEWS: Along with the fact The BBC ARE CRIMINALS! THEY COMMITTED A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME by stoking the fire of The Dimapur Lync…

RT @Creyative2: @rupamurthy1 While Sanghi mens go around lynching rapping peeing on others, Sanghi womens jump in to justify those acts wit…

RT @KMJeezy: Rosa Parks was a long time investigator for the NAACP. She traveled all over the south investigating claims of discrimination,…

After a lynching on twitter being accused of victim blaming. This blog will be about victim blaming / resilience and determination. Hope I can redeem myself. If not I’ll do some more self reflection to club out of the sin bin. https://t.co/TOjiI1trNh

SAME WHATSAPP GROUP “its time to stop seeing white people as perpetrators of lynching” https://t.co/ag5SvMgqUo

RT @Synachy2: JAMB & JOY. It is a shame that as a society instead of correcting our child Joy,we are lynching & trying hard to push her ove…

RT @Singh__Azad: Where are the #hindus crying about lynching? Were these men in mandir? You dare to lecture Sikhs on how to treat someone…

RT @t_d_h_nair: How many of the RSS and BJP leaders' prodigies are in VHP and Bajragdal to save Hindus in the world? Which union minister's…

RT @Synachy2: JAMB & JOY. It is a shame that as a society instead of correcting our child Joy,we are lynching & trying hard to push her ove…

RT @Synachy2: JAMB & JOY. It is a shame that as a society instead of correcting our child Joy,we are lynching & trying hard to push her ove…

He didn't demand investigation of the lynching of people because of religion. Lol. It's the "demands investigation" for me. We're very unserious in this country. https://t.co/YRidnWwGhy

RT @saliltripathi: People have posted videos of committing lynching. The train left the station of shame a long time ago.

RT @DonaldDucksIt: MOM FOR LIBERTY! Liberty for straight white Christians- their version of the new master race. Ban teaching about segre…

RT @dijoni: They are original gang violence. Their original looters.. the original bombers, the original murderer, the original rapist, the…

RT @dijoni: July 4, 1776. This is America. there was no celebration for African-Americans 245 years of slavery 100 years of Jim Crow 100 ye…

RT @devduttmyth: Hindutva "intellectuals" are now in a frenzy... tweeting furiously that corruption is practical, lying in necessary, grabb…

RT @dharmo_rakshita: Rahul Bajaj even locked horns with Indira Gandhi. He even locked horns with Modi before his death on price rise etc. o…

RT @dijoni: They are original gang violence. Their original looters.. the original bombers, the original murderer, the original rapist, the…

RT @SilverSpookGuy: The sovereign country of Hawaii had Black citizens before the US Civil War. In fact, US slaves that stepped onto Hawaii…

RT @MintOminty: This brutal lynching of Tribal Man Madhu happend in leftist liberal heaven in Kerala and We have seen no outrage

RT @saliltripathi: People have posted videos of committing lynching. The train left the station of shame a long time ago.

RT @dijoni: July 4, 1776. This is America. there was no celebration for African-Americans 245 years of slavery 100 years of Jim Crow 100 ye…

RT @JaneotN: When MAGA Christians have nothing left, they'll call you a Jezebel and a witch. They're bringing back witch-burning, along wit…

RT @JaneotN: When MAGA Christians have nothing left, they'll call you a Jezebel and a witch. They're bringing back witch-burning, along wit…

you all aren’t tired of lynching him for every subject? must be so cruel to make a comment for subject like this when he shares his happiness she is like a sister for him and it’s his life GET A LIFE FOR YOURSELF https://t.co/3jhN9l34eg

RT @peteratcmc: Privileges Committee beginning to look like characters in a Western - a bunch of self-important small-town empty vessels dr…

Two women jailed for lynching 90-year-old Akua Denteh over witchcraft allegations https://t.co/0lf6mvpuT2 https://t.co/F7bC6yNemm

RT @naseerCorpGhmc: Mob Lynching in Bihar: 'When even the police started running away in fear, then who would save Zahiroddin?' "Some came…

I called Nels an outrage grifter for standing on the corpses of a young family horrifically murdered in an arson attack that Nels called a lynching for political capital. A proper slime ball. https://t.co/4T6z2NFGmX