Jay Reeves, correspondent, Deep South/Birmingham, Ala., for revealing the pain of people whose relatives were killed in actual lynchings, as a debate raged among politicians and pundits over President Donald Trump’s use of the word “lynching” to describe the impeachment inquiry.
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Descendants reveal pain over Trump ‘lynching’ remark
Josephine Bolling McCall poses with a photo of her father, lynching victim Elmore Bolling, at her home in Montgomery, Ala., April 18, 2018. Facing an impeachment inquiry that he and supporters claim is illegal, President Donald Trump has tweeted that the impeachment process is a “lynching,” a remark that relatives of actual lynching victims find offensive.
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