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In reply to the discussion: Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your 'crime infested' district [View all]RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)4. Ridiculous
First, as poster noted above, he did take the bait. What happens when the North Korean leader starts throwing barbs at him in a few weeks?
More personally, living in Atlanta, I can tell you that Congressman Lewis's district is of course not at all as represented by iPEOTUS. It's a wonderful part of my city and has a broad spectrum of Socio economic diversity - like every other major city in this country.
It was the barbs at this civil rights hero, and my hometown, that push me over the edge for logging in and posting for the first time in years.
iPeotus - can we coin that term?
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Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your 'crime infested' district [View all]
highplainsdem
Jan 2017
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ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum calls this the worst of Trump's many reprehensible tweets:
highplainsdem
Jan 2017
#1
Bingo - Charlie Pierce was basically saying, just wait for the overnight Tweet-storm.
bullwinkle428
Jan 2017
#28
No, he caught flack for intentionally misleading @ Sanders' civil rights activism
Arazi
Jan 2017
#83
I live in the 5th and Mr Lewis is exceptional. Drumpf slammed a lot of good folks.
CurtEastPoint
Jan 2017
#17
It says all we have to say that we expected a churlish, juvenile response from The Twitter in Chief
spiderpig
Jan 2017
#9
Trump is a shit-bug; John Lewis is a giant among men; a hero. Trump's cabinet is full of criminals,
NBachers
Jan 2017
#16
Funny Trump should say this, in a few days it will be Trump's crime infested nation,
Thinkingabout
Jan 2017
#20
Trump Towers is crime infested with fraud and crime, they have a horrible resident.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2017
#23
I think the number of Democrats who will not attend the "inauguration" will increase, now.
Laurian
Jan 2017
#22
Trump is in for a rude awakening as the strategy of deflect, distract, deflect, distract is going to
cstanleytech
Jan 2017
#34
trump always uses The Hill Headline to get out his twitter main message of hate.
Sunlei
Jan 2017
#40
Lot's of nice areas in his district. Heck, I feel safer there than some of the white wing enclaves
Hoyt
Jan 2017
#54
ThinkProgress: On MLK weekend, Trump smears civil rights hero John Lewis as a slumlord
riversedge
Jan 2017
#42
He probably just thought, "Oh, here's a black Congressman insulting me - get the doghorn!"
hatrack
Jan 2017
#51
"One wonders if the word "uppity" drifted through his largely vacant mind . . ."
3catwoman3
Jan 2017
#60
One thing you can bet on for certain is that the food is better in Lewis's district than it is
world wide wally
Jan 2017
#50