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On the recordOctober 21, 2019
But you cannot put it in the same context. President Trump with me, an individual in the context whose people and whose family had been subject to lynching.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks responds to Trump's use of the term 'lynching' in relation to the impeachment process, highlighting its inappropriateness.

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