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Tweet with his own asking, quote, what the hell is wrong with you, telling the president to delete that tweet. with us this morning, boris sanchez. boris, why use that term? >> reporter: hey, poppy. remarkable choice of words from president trump, and now he's spinning this myth of persecution in the most extreme and offensive way you can go. i want you to listen to representative karen bash. of course, she's the head of the congressional black caucus, and spoke to manu raju. >> whenever his back is against the wall, a racial bomb is what we know of him to throw. >> reporter: this is racist? >...

Condemnation after he went even further and likened it to a lynching. trump tweeting at the impeachment inquiry is without due process or fairness or any legal rights as he urged republicans to remember this in the future. but critics said he should remember the past. democrats immediately rebuked the president for invoking the racist history of barbaric white mob murders of black people. >> you knew exactly what he was saying and exactly how it would come across. why would you use the term lynching. why would you say that? >> reporter: members of trump's own party distanced themselves from hi...

Using the most inflammatory possible language to make a point about how things are being unfair to him. but in doing so really trying to get into the country's deep racial wounds. this is often what he does in an attempt to get people's attention, to be controversial, to be inflammatory. but it doesn't make any sense in this context, and i don't think we -- in some ways, i don't think we should indulge the effort to kind of make this about some controversy that he is concocting on social media in order to get people to focus on this tweet and not why he's so upset which is -- >> we debated whe...