Justin Fairfax compares himself to "lynching victims."
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Date: February 24, 2019 07:05PM
Will this approach work and get him sympathy? Maybe a Jussie Smollet lynching but I don't think anyone is buying this. There will be hearings soon. He better be ready to resign and have his day in court.
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Democratic Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared himself to lynching victims Sunday, as he faces two allegations of sexual assault, including rape.
In a speech on the Virginia Senate floor, Fairfax continued to deny any of the allegations, comparing himself to those lynched in Virginia between 1877 and 1950 in regard to no due process. Fairfax said the allegations he has faced are nothing but accusations and are based on “no facts,” according to The Associated Press.
“I’ve heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where people were not given any due process whatsoever, and we rue that,” Fairfax said.
“And we talk about hundreds, at least 100 terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices. And yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing,” Fairfax continued.
www.dailycaller.com/2019/02/24/fairfax-lynching-victim-comparison/