Joe Biden was one of several Democrats who immediately and rightly criticized President Trump for comparing the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry to a “lynching.” But as it turns out, Biden made a similar statement in a 1998 interview with CNN during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.
“Even if the president should be impeached, history 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 standard, the very high bar, that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense,” then-Sen. Biden said.
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