The mayor of Salem has provided the president with a basic history lesson after Trump claimed he is being treated worse than those accused at the Salem witch trials. 'Learn some history,' she said.
, Trump declared the two charges leveled against him ― obstruction of congress and abuse of power ― were baseless. He also claimed he’d been treated unfairly and that “more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”
Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll thought it best she educate the president on the historical point he sought to make. “Learn some history,” she tweeted. In Salem in 1692, “powerless, innocent victims were hanged or pressed to death” in the absence of evidence, she wrote. Contrary to that, she said, the case against Trump involves ample evidence and admissions of wrongdoing, as well as perpetrators who “are among the most powerful+privileged.”
“This situation is much different than the plight of the witch trial victims, who were convicted using spectral evidence + then brutally hanged or pressed to death,” she wrote. “A dubious legal process that bears no relation to televised impeachment.
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