Posted on 01/17/2017 5:00:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Donald Trump is paying too much heed to the ranting of civil-rights veteran John Lewis: The Georgia congressman’s been playing the same tune about every top Republican for years now.
Yes, Lewis’ accusation was baseless and blatantly partisan: He said Trump isn’t a “legitimate president” because of Russian hacking, and he’d skip the inauguration, “the first one I’ve missed since I’ve been in Congress.”
Oops: He didn’t attend George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2001, either — charging that Dubya wasn’t truly elected.
Last year, Lewis said Trump “reminds me so much of the things that George Wallace said and did.” But he said the same in 2008 about Sen. John McCain, whose presidential run was “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” and “reminds me too much of another destructive period in our history.”
McCain, by the way, had lavished praise on Lewis over the years and ID’d him as one of “three wise men” he’d consult as president....
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Trump is busy blowing up Washington and that includes anyone who gets in the way.
No, he needs to eviscerate these hypocritical, good for nothing sacred cows.
McCain saying Lewis was one of the “three wise men” he would have consulted as President is the most weaselly, pandering thing I’ve read all week. And another reason to be grateful he wasn’t elected President!
BS
Destroy the commie bastard.
So, Lewis calls Trump illegitimate and Trump points out that Lewis’ district needs attention, and Trump is the bad guy....
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