Posted on 01/15/2017 5:58:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2010, days after returning from Selma, Ala., Mike Pence went on a GOP website and gushed about “my friend” John Lewis.
Then a congressman from Indiana's 6th District, Pence said he was “honored” to walk beside a man personally recruited by Martin Luther King Jr. He talked about how an officer had bashed a younger Lewis in the head during the fight for voting rights. Lewis, he said, was “an integral part of the American story in our nation's unrelenting march toward a more perfect union.”
Now Vice President-elect Pence is one of many leaders picking sides between Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump. Lewis recently called Trump an illegitimate president and Trump responded that the civil rights icon is “all talk.”
In the past year, Trump has gotten into public disputes with a beauty queen and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier. But on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump went back and forth with a man whom John McCain once called “one of the most respected men in America.”
It's a widely held opinion. For a lifetime of civil rights work, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Last year, the Navy announced it would name a ship after him, making Lewis one of just a few " to get that honor.
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Racist communist hack
Fake News.
John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and others who were with King over 50 years ago have forgotten everything.
King, was a Republican, not a Democrat.
What is sad is that King like do many others of history have had Myth’s take over for facts, and so many things attributed to them are not real or factual.
What has Lewis done in the ensuing years since 1968, Well he lazy and fat with a nice secure seat in Congress where he has accomplished next to nothing other than running his mouth and promoting PC and Garbage rather the gospel of Dr. King. Lord even King’s own family is only in it for the money at every turn. What a Sad Legacy that is left.
It has begun. The left is going to attack everything Trump says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do.
Which America would that be?
Fake News.
Oh for God’s sake liberal douche bags..Donald Trump didnt “Attack” anyone..John Lewis said that Trump’s presidency is “Illegitimate” THAT is attacking..All Trump said in that tweet was that Lewis should focus more on his OWN District instead of bringing up stupid Russia and their so-called meddling in the election(Which never happened) attacking is calling someone a name..the ONLY one that did any name calling was John Lewis, he is the one that owes Trump an apology!
Lewis is a brain damaged jack ass that once actually lied on the floor of our House of Representative that 100 million Negroes were pushed into the ocean off the coast of Africa By WHITE people in the slave trade, to be eaten by sharks. He is a disillusioned simpleton. he is sad and discombobulated because the communists lost. Screw him!!
Does this somehow mean that he can't be wrong about anything?
Does it mean that he can't be full of sh!t for saying that Trump's Presidency is not legitimate, an assertion that even the White House rebutted?
Modern journalism is profoundly lacking in logic.
Objectively, what John Lewis said was bullshit, and the President-elect called him out on it.
In a few more days, the Left will begin to understand where they really stand in the eyes of the People. It's not going to be pretty as the reality of their waning power sinks in, and they see their support continue to dwindle.
A significant section of the American people have been awakened, and they're not going back to sleep. Indeed, they will be joined by an ever-increasing number of their fellow Americans who will also soon awaken, to the dismay of the Uni-Party Establishment and Media (but I repeat myself).
Oh, bosh!! More worthless drivel from the Washington Post!!!!
Washington Post:
#FAKENEWS
Lewis has proven himself to lie and create #FAKENEWS on a number of instances.
1. For example:
He says he heard the epithet and was spit on.
Breitbart asked why the epithet was not captured by the black lawmakers’ cameras, and why nobody reacted as if they had heard the slur.
2. For example:
PANTS ON FIRE: Civil Rights Pioneer John Lewis LIES About Meeting The Clintons
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/pants-on-fire-civil-rights-pioneer-john-lewis-lies-about-meeting-the-clintons
3. For example:
Black America Isn’t Buying your Gun Control Lies, Congressman Lewis.
https://bearingarms.com/antonia-o/2016/06/22/black-america-isnt-buying-congressmen-lewis-gun-control-doesnt-mean-civil-rights/
4. For example:
Six False Accusations by John Lewis, Hero-Turned-Hack
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/15/john-lewis-false-racism-hero-partisan/
“. . . one of the most respected people in America?”
I THINK NOT!
Lewis is a race pimp & hustler every bit as racist and corrupt as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!
Trump nailed him as a grossly ineffective Congressman, which is exactly what he is!
Trump is simply standing up for those of us who elected him.
Who knows Jane Louis? Who???
Funny, I have never heard of Mr. Lewis before now and everything that I have seen so far makes me think that he is a grifting puke.
Regardless of what John Lewis once was, he is now an embittered, dishonest, worthless, bigoted politician who is well past his sell-by date.
John Lewis lied the day they passed obamacare saying someone called him the n word. How much money is in his bank accounts? How many payoffs has he taken? Been in power for 30 years.
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