"You're not legitimate! You're not legitimate! And you! Mailman! Not legitimate! Nobody's legitimate! Arrrrrggggh!"
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.
Lewis appears to have a problem with white people.
The only way Trump beats the media and establishment over the next four years is fit him to stay on offense daily
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!
Really interesting....Bless Trump’s “see what you can find team”....
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.
Trump is popping this guys bubble the same way he did with the ‘war hero’ McCain. And it’s about G.D. time too. Go Donald!!!
This was out there but not being reported. NOW it will be reported!
I’m glad that President Trump is swinging back. John Lewis is a liar, a race baiter and not an honorable man. He (and his fellow race-baiting liars) need to be called out on their lies.
Lewis is a 100% racist.
Call them out! Stomp’email down! That’s what has to be done.
If members of the House and Senate are ever required to pass a real IQ test and rigorous knowledge of the Constitution, we would never again need to worry about non entities like John Lewis.
I don't agree that Donald Trum has made many mistakes, but even acknowledging this fool is a huge mistake.
That's our job.
Does Mr. President plan to deal with insignificant household pests himself?
Please.
I’m so glad DJT tweeted the truth about Lewis’ TWO boycotts! Lewis believed he could lie about this being the “first time” and get away with it, but I guess he forgot about this new-fangled social media thing. The truth can be disseminated in a few short sentences.
And the whole “civil rights icon” thing. Who cares? That was then and this is now. He can’t dine out until the end of time just because he was a criminal dissident in the ‘60s. The black community needs to ask him, “What have you done for us lately?”
I’m so glad DJT tweeted the truth about Lewis’ TWO boycotts! Lewis believed he could lie about this being the “first time” and get away with it, but I guess he forgot about this new-fangled social media thing. The truth can be disseminated in a few short sentences.
And the whole “civil rights icon” thing. Who cares? That was then and this is now. He can’t dine out until the end of time just because he was a criminal dissident in the ‘60s. The black community needs to ask him, “What have you done for us lately?”