Watch as Dem Rep. Gregory Meeks called then President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 a “political lynching” in this flashback video:

So why was it OK to use the word lynching back in 1998 in defense of Bill Clinton but not OK in defense of President Donald Trump?

MEEKS: “Little did I expect that ten months later I would have to cast a vote that was certain to become one of the most important in my life.

I intend to vote against each of these articles of impeachment. My reasons are neither partisan nor do they reflect my distaste and dissatisfaction with the President’s behavior.

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Instead, my votes are a protest against an unfair process. The inequities in the impeachment process have been glaring. The Republicans started with Whitewater, they found nothing.

Ken Starr then went to Travelgate. He found nothing. He looked at Filegate. He never released documents, in fact, he made no effort to publicly admit to the lack of evidence against the President.

Instead, he developed relationships with the Jones’ legal team and withheld information from the Justice Department rather than disclosing the bias, his bias to the proper parties.

What we are doing, what we’re doing here is not a prosecution, it’s a persecution. And indeed, it is a political lynching.

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The Republicans have had no agenda for over a year, and with this act today, they are signaling that they have no agenda for the future, rather than working together in a bipartisan manner on issues — the people want censure and move on.”