On NBC’s “Meet The Press” with Chuck Todd (Jan. 14 2017) Representative John Lewis (D-GA) said on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend that he didn’t see Donald Trump as a legitimate president.
Donald Trump responded with a tirade of Tweet Bombs with insults and inaccurate remarks with racial overtones describing Lewis’s Congressional district. Trump’s transition team members Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and many GOP lawmakers denounce Lewis’s statement and his plan not to attend the inauguration ceremony. Even some DFL lawmakers weighed in. The audacity of anyone stating that a presidential win is illigitimate! Right?
FLASHBACK 2012
President Barack Obama wins a second term.
Barack Obama won both the popular vote and the Electoral vote - just another Trump “untruth” that Obama “lost the popular vote by a lot”. This is unlike Trump’s claim of a “landslide” where he won the electoral vote by 26 less than President Obama did in 2012, and he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes to @HillaryClinton. Romney lost to Obama by 126 electoral votes and 3,473,402 unpopular votes. Trump beat Hillary by ONLY 74 electoral votes and HILLARY WON the popular vote by 2,865,075 votes, almost 3 million. Are the statements of John Lewis, a champion of civil rights and a man who has suffered personally from the acts of racism, so outlandish? More outlandish than a man who tried to deligitimize the Presidency of Barack Obama by pushing the racist birtherism movement from 2011 to 2016 and who also starting a conspiracy hinting he was a Muslim, something 60+% of his followers still believe due to the subliminal mind-plant “maybe he’s a Muslim, who knows”?