African American Congressman Al Green has been threatened with lynching after he called for US President Donald Trump’s impeachment over his multiple scandals.
Green, a Democratic Representative from Texas, became the first lawmaker on Wednesday to call for Trump’s impeachment following revelations that the Republican president had pressured former FBI chief James Comey to drop the investigation into General Mike Flynn, who was Trump’s national security adviser and resigned over undisclosed contacts with a Russian diplomat.
The congressman on Saturday held a town hall meeting and played several recorded threatening messages sent to him at his offices in Texas and Washington, DC.
“You’ll be hanging from a tree,” one caller said in a voicemail.
“You ain’t going to impeach nobody,” the person added. “Try it and we will lynch all of you.”
Most of the he callers used racial slurs against the African American lawmaker, and addressed him with the n-word…