- Steven Poole's word of the week: Does Donald Trump really believe his impeachment inquiry is a ‘lynching’? Whatever its origin as a name for ad hoc tribunals, ‘lynching’ has come to mean summary execution https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/24/does-donald-trump-really-believe-his-impeachment-inquiry-is-a-lynching 3 comments politics