Posted on 01/17/2017 6:52:52 AM PST by JPX2011
Hmmm. Perhaps PE Trump would consider Mason Weaver for his team. ;-)
Lose the martyr complex, Lewis. You weren’t the only civil rights activist to get roughed up by the police and it doesn’t give you license to delegitimize the will of the American electorate.
The media will convert this to “Trump racist “.
But Lewis had no problem with the swearing in of a man who was not a natural born citizen and ineligible.
FR needs a like button. Consider this my like.
Lewis appears to have a problem with white people.
And the people doing the roughing up were Democrats.
The only way Trump beats the media and establishment over the next four years is fit him to stay on offense daily
Tucker Carlson - Former Black Panther Mason Weaver Slams Rep John Lewis - 1/16/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FiqbALgLE4
Trump needs to ignore Lewis. All he is doing with these tweets is elevating Lewis status as an equal to the president elect.
At the very least, Trump can have his subordinates go after Lewis. He needs to stay out of the personal attacks, to be more presidential.
This is what Obama always did. He would have his underlings do all the attacking while appearing to take the high road. This tactic works with most of the stupid American public.
What’s so cool is that I read that tweet and initially think it was from Breitbart, and then get a glow when I realize it’s the president!
It doesn’t take genius or courage to get your skull bashed in by some other democRAT.
Lewis has traded on his stupidity for quite some time. He’s a bitter old man whose time is about up.
John Lewis was involved in the civil rights movement. WERE YOU NOT AWARE OF THAT????
Really interesting....Bless Trump’s “see what you can find team”....
“Trump needs to ignore Lewis. “
Nope.
“At the very least, Trump can have his subordinates go after Lewis. He needs to stay out of the personal attacks, to be more presidential.”
You mean be more like George W..
Look, it is makes you uncomfortable that a GOP president isnt taking the bullsh*t from these people, then just vote for the GOPe candidate in 2020, and don’t complain in the future about them not “taking the gloves off” or “playing by Queensbury rules”.
People here wanted a revolution. Well you damn well have one. Either participate or go home.
Leaving it up to some subordinate isnt setting the record straight, it is just playing to the press expecting that people will just somehow get the truth after the press gets around to publishing it....as if they would.
“This is what Obama always did. He would have his underlings do all the attacking while appearing to take the high road. This tactic works with most of the stupid American public.”
It “worked” because the press amplified their side and covered for them.
Do you think they are going to do that for Trump? Yeah, didn’t think so either.
The REAL John Lewis .... since 1965
Thanks, John Lewis. Now Go Away.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/thanks_john_lewis_now_go_away.html
FR thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3514797/posts
From Article Link:
For all his years in Congress, Lewis has “opposed every piece of criminal justice or welfare reform legislation that would make the people of his district safer, more self-reliant, and more prosperous,” Trent writes.
The robustly self-righteous lawmaker is now in the media spotlight because he refuses to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, who becomes president Friday. He pigheadedly insists that Trump is not “a legitimate president” based on the flimsy, unproven theory that, in his words, “the Russians participated in helping this man get elected” at the expense of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In light of all this, Lewis’s slight of Trump and his embrace of the trendy myth, risen from the fever swamps of the left, of all-powerful Russian electoral interference are so insignificant in the vast catalog of horrors that is his career in activism and electoral politics that they are barely worth mentioning.
Lewis has spent decades trying to undermine America and siding with its enemies, as Discover the Networks has documented.
In the 1960s and ‘70s, he worked with members of the Socialist Workers Party and a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) front group called the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
In 1989, the Sandinista-led Communist government of Nicaragua renounced a ceasefire agreement with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels, the House of Representatives voted 379 to 29 for a resolution deploring the Nicaraguan action. Lewis was one of the 29 Democrats who voted nay.
In 1989, he was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies, a North Carolina-based spinoff of the seditious Marxist think-tank known as the Institute for Policy Studies.
In 2003, he wrote an op-ed for the CPUSA paper People’s Weekly World, titled “An Open letter to my Colleagues in Congress: Remembering the Legacy of Martin Luther King.” In 2015, Massachusetts CPUSA leader Gary Dotterman called Lewis “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend.”
In 2007, he was an honored guest at the national conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, a Marxist group. He provided an introduction to Bernie Sanders.
In 2009, when the House voted 345 to 75 to defund the criminal, corrupt Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Lewis voted to continue feeding taxpayer funds to the now defunct group.
Lewis supports amnesty for illegal aliens and opposes securing the border. In 2011, he told a rally, “We all live in the same house[.] … If any one of us is illegal, then we all are illegal. There is no illegal human being.”
In 2014, after thousands of mostly unaccompanied Central American minors crossed the southern border illegally, Lewis cheered them on. “We are all connected. We can’t just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open.”
Republicans who don’t agree with Lewis are routinely smeared as black-hating racists.
In 2008, Lewis accused presidential running mates John McCain and Sarah Palin of “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
In 2010, Lewis and other black Democrat lawmakers falsely claimed that conservative Tea Party activists shouted the “N-word” at them at an anti-Obamacare protest on the steps of Capitol Hill. “It surprised me that people are so mean and we can’t engage in a civil dialogue and debate,” he said at the time.
At the Democratic National Convention in 2012, Lewis accused Republicans of trying to restore Jim Crow-like segregation in the country.
In January 2016, he hurled the George Wallace smear at Donald Trump.
This is not an exhaustive list.
Glad Trump did this, otherwise Lewis’ lie would never get beyond the conservative media.
Trump is right about this, of course, which surely rankles his opponents. Republicans aren’t supposed to fight like this.
From Donald Trump down through his transition team, and all the way down to the janitorial staff at Trump Tower ... Trump himself is the only one who would ever bother wasting his time with this sh!t.
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