Trump lynching remark 'unfortunate': Republican Senate leader

• It is an unfair process and a better way to characterize it would be to call it an unfair process," he said.
• At the same time, the Republican from Kentucky said Trump had a "legitimate complaint" about the impeachment inquiry.

WASHINGTON: Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's comparison of the congressional impeachment inquiry to a "lynching" was an "unfortunate choice of words."

"Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching," McConnell told reporters. "That was an unfortunate choice of words."

At the same time, the Republican from Kentucky said Trump had a "legitimate complaint" about the impeachment inquiry for abuse of power by the Democratic-led House of Representatives.

"It is an unfair process and a better way to characterize it would be to call it an unfair process," he said.

In a tweet Tuesday, Trump complained about the impeachment inquiry, saying "All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here -- a lynching."