Washington – President-elect Mike Pence says it is “deeply disappointing” that civil rights icon John Lewis would question the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s White House victory.
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In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Pence said he respects “the sacrifice” the Georgia congressman made, but said that he is one of many people making “baseless assertions” that the president-elect’s victory was illegitimate.
Trump tore into Lewis on Saturday, just days ahead of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Pence says that “Donald Trump has every right to defend himself.”
He says the nation faces “deep challenges” and he hopes Lewis will reconsider his decision to boycott the inauguration and his remarks questioning Trump’s victory.
What comes around goes around. Trump questioned Obama many times for years.
“He says the nation faces ‘deep challenges'”
He’s right…two of those challenges are him and the President-Elect.
Good for VP Pence. He’s right on. Gross chutzpa for John Lewis to declare a president-elect, one chosen by half of America mind you, as illegitimate. It’s like Hillary calling us a basket of deplorables. Irresponsible, to say the least. He owes DT and the people who voted for him in a Democratic free election an apology.
Isn’t it interesting? Donald Trump is seventy years old. That is to say he was born in the 1940’s. He was a teenager, a rich teenager, in the 1960’s the time of civil rights marches and the war in Vietnam. What an amazing era.
Trump seems to have done nothing but looks for drugs and girls. He never went South to protest for (or even against) integration. He does not seem to have taken any interest in peace movement once he dodged the draft.