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In reply to the discussion: Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your 'crime infested' district [View all]riversedge
(70,220 posts)42. ThinkProgress: On MLK weekend, Trump smears civil rights hero John Lewis as a slumlord
Tara Culp-Ressler
Senior Editor at ThinkProgress. Contact me: tculp-ressler@thinkprogress.org
1 hr ago
On MLK weekend, Trump smears civil rights hero John Lewis as a slumlord
Trump attacked Lewis for being all talk, no actions.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-smears-john-lewis-twitter-4fdcf12b18d#.9059jvde7
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Early Saturday morning, President-elect Donald Trump attacked the Georgia congressman and famed civil rights hero John Lewis for being all talk, no action and presiding over a crime infested district thats falling apart.
The thinly veiled racial smear essentially suggesting Lewis is a slumlord came on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as the nation prepares to honor the civil rights leader with whom Lewis worked closely in the 1960s to advocate for racial and economic justice.
Trumps assertion that Lewis is presiding over a failing and crime-ridden district is not true. The predominantly black district represented by Lewis includes very nice parts of Atlanta and its suburbs that can hardly be described as in horrible shape. Since 2009, crime has fallen by 30 percent in his district.
Trump who frequently uses his Twitter platform to lash out against his critics was responding to recent comments from Lewis saying that he does not see the president-elect as legitimate because of apparent Russian interference in the 2016 election.
I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians and others to help him get elected. Thats not right. Thats not fair. Thats not the open democratic process, Lewis told Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd in an interview set to air on Sunday morning...........................
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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