This is John Lewis. Because of something he did a very long time ago, he’s better than you. He is above common courtesy and civility. He can insult you. He could poison puppies. He could even kill you. And you are not allowed to dare question any of it. Well, over the weekend he picked a fight with Donald Trump. Trump had the temerity to respond and now Lewis wallows in victimhood.
Lewis did something admirable fifty years ago and has been living off of it ever since. Lewis uses it as a shield when he picks fights. He uses it as a shield when he hurls insults. He retreats to it after he throws stones.
Thing is, this was about one thing- money.
John Lewis cast the first stone when he called Trump’s Presidency illegitimate.
Democratic Rep. John Lewis (Ga.) said in an interview that he does not consider President-elect Donald Trump to be a legitimate president.
In a preview clip of an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd set to air Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Lewis said his view on Trump’s presidency is attributed to Russian meddling in the presidential election, which he called a “conspiracy.”
When Todd asked Lewis if he planned to try work with Trump to pass legislation, Lewis said he believes in forgiveness but that Trump is not legitimate.
“It’s going to be very difficult,” Lewis said. “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.”
Todd asked Lewis to explain his position.
“I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they have destroyed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton,” Lewis said.
He offered not a “smidgen” of evidence for this assertion, of course, but let’s be clear. He started it. Trump being Trump, he fired back:
Trump’s responding set off a flurry of harrumphs and what I want to point out is the manner in which they are characterized:
Donald Trump just attacked civil rights hero John Lewis on Twitter
And there’s lots more
Trump blasts civil rights icon John Lewis in Twitter attack
Trump Attacks Rep. Lewis, Who Said He Wasn’t ‘Legitimate President’
Disappointingly, Michael Steele jumped on Trump:
“John Lewis has a walk that very few people in this country – least of all Donald Trump – have ever walked. So you have to respect that and pay attention to that in a real sense,” he added.
True, but few remember that Donald Trump was the recipient of the Ellis Island Award and he was in some pretty good company:
Lewis’s history doesn’t give him the right to unfairly assault a President-elect. Trump broke no laws. He did not cheat. And Trump did not start this fight. He was attacked by Lewis. Fighting back seems to be out of order for Republicans. But let’s get to the motivations of the attack.
- Delegitimize Trump and 2. Money.
Seemingly within seconds, democrats were fund raising off the incident, complete with the race card:
Democrats are fundraising off of comments made by President-elect Donald Trump attacking Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).
In an email sent Saturday night with the subject line “what Donald Trump said,” the Georgia Democrat wrote that the president-elect attacked him on Twitter and said he was “all talk” and “no action.”
“I’ve been beaten bloody, tear-gassed, fighting for what’s right for America. I’ve marched at Selma with Dr. King. Sometimes that’s what it takes to move our country in the right direction,” Lewis said in the email.
“We refuse to stop now. We’re not done fighting for progress. We’re ready for the next four years.”
Lewis then asked people to chip in to help the Democrats “stand up to injustice.”
When John Lewis was beaten marching for civil rights, he was beaten by democrats. There’s this little nugget
He went on to say the majority of Americans thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. He said he remembers when segregation was “the law of the land that ordered our society in the Deep South.”
Yes, Americans do think the country is going in the wrong direction- under obama, that is. Lewis continues to profit from his assault on Trump:
Hours after President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to blast civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, labeling the Democrat’s Atlanta district as a “crime infested” area that is in “horrible shape,” Lewis’ 1999 memoir sold out on Amazon.
As of Saturday evening, the retailer was temporarily out of stock of Lewis’ 1999 biography, “Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.”
Again, the fact that Lewis cast the first stone is completely ignored. It is no coincidence that Lewis chose Martin Luther King weekend to pick a fight with Donald Trump. The purpose is now clear. I have the greatest respect for what Lewis did 50 years ago, but these actions today are nothing but purely cynical politics and he is not immune to criticism.
Politics ain’t beanbag.

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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Ajay42302: You are a cowardly liar. That is not an opinion.
Obama started his Presidential quest in the home of a terrorist. He ends it by releasing a terrorist from prison. They both killed Americans and they are Obama’s people. This is who you grovel for, lie for, embarrass yourself for. You worship an America-hater who is out-doing himself to prove just how much he hates this country.
When you begin to recover your intelligence, the first realization you will come to is how stupid you are. Then real knowledge will begin to reappear within your mind. That is IF the process ever actually begins.
@Ajay42302:
You acknowledge that Trump will be the legitimate President and I will acknowledge Obama was a legitimate President.
@RedTeam:
We still have no idea where he was born, how he got into Columbia and then Harvard.
That which we do know condems obama as a radical who has terrorists as his role models. Perhaps obama would best be suited in post presidency as the leader of isil…..
@Ajay42302: Libturd moron, you can ask but I won’t listen or obey. You should refrain from your baseless accusations of our President Elect and soon to be President on Friday. Donald Trump. Reality will be really hard on a libturd like yourself !!
@July 4th American:
We actually know both of those. First, where he was born is not important, though Obama spent most of his life claiming to have been born in Kenya. But we do know that he became an Indonesian citizen when he moved there and has never given that up and become an American citizen again, And, he never attended Columbia. No student ever saw him in a classroom there. No professor ever had him in a class there. Quite simply he never attended Columbia. How he got into Harvard? A Yuuuggee donation by some middle east Muslim to Harvard bought him. He was appointed to the Harvard Law Review, he didn’t earn it. He never wrote one word for the Review. He got his diploma from affirmative action. He lost his Illinois license for lying on the application (about never having used another name, Barry Soetoro)
Yep we know more about Obozo than he wants us too.
Ah, at last! The official Final Day of Anybody Giving a Rat’s Ass concerning the right’s opinions regarding Barack Obama. Maybe you can still get some attention after tomorrow by standing on a soap box with a megaphone inside the local bus station.
What will Trump supporters do without any distractions from Trump—who suddenly will not just be saying things, but doing things that will have actual consequences? Nothing stands in his way now but the GOP! (And, it must be said, vice versa.) Except perhaps reality.
It’s going to be great!
@Greg:
The obama legacy is a menace to humanity. There will be much to discuss post presidency.
@Greg: With Obozo out of office, it will be easier for the truth to come out. He doesn’t even have a US Passport (except one issued as president) so he may not even be able to leave the country. No Social Security number so he won’t be able to get SS benefits or Medicare. Geez, seems as if you’d want to get those things straightened out so he can get what he’s entitled to. Prison time.
@July 4th American: True. And if ‘Greg’ is so sure it’s not true and that ‘nobody cares’ then why is he still kissing his butt?
@Greg: Pull it together Greg, the left never did give a rats ass about our thoughts feelings or opinions. Your president never gave a rats ass about you, it was always the agenda his bitter hatred of any American culture, he hates you, you fought for your country he despises you. Thank goodness he will be gone, and there is much to undo, repair, rebuild.We dont need any Beta feminist males, we want toxic alpha males, the women who back them, unafraid of a little work. Not entitled but those that know nothings free. Thats what the whiners are going to find out, and they will cry, we will say not sorry, you have to earn your distribution or go hungry.
@kitt, #60:
That explains a lot more than you probably realize.
He’s going to have to hurry…
@Greg: I hope so, I hope it explains everything we are sick to death of,
its racists like lefty snoop http://www.infowars.com/racist-trump-supporters-raise-650000-to-have-black-marching-band-play-at-inauguration
@Greg: Greggie Greggie Greggie the libturd loser returns. I remember before Trump was Elected President how you ranted and raved about how Republicans would be so humiliated when Trump lost!! Turns out your the loser again Greggie!!
@kitt: Poor Greggie is fighting reality but he is once again a loser. I wonder if Ajay and Greggie are the same libturd, that would explain a lot about how they just can’t manage to accept reality. BTW, tomorrow will be one of the best TGIF’s America has seen in decades!!
@Greg:
Consequences… like the creation of jobs? Consequences like securing the border and placing importance on national security? Consequences like reductions in regulations, taxes and debt? Consequences like protecting society from terrorists, foreign AND domestic?
Oh, save us.
@Common Sense: Its bad of me to direct my posts at Greg he is like the guy bloody in the dirt after gettiing his ass kicked in a fistfight, still mouthing off.
@Ajay42302:
HEY? Where’d you go? Running from another reply?
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
Just a couple things wrong there my friend. First, it doesn’t make sense that can acknowledge Obama was a legitimate President ON:Y if I acknowledge that of Trump, as if my admission somehow changes your opinions or as you’ve stated, change your facts. It’s interesting that your spine is so flimsy, that your convictions can turn on a dime if you can get one to say something that’s pleasing to your ears. This argument (actually, GOP strategy) has played out now for well over 8 years.
But to be clear, I absolutely believe that Donald Trump was legitimately elected and will be our legitimate President. I don’t like it but there’s not an iota of belief in me that he wasn’t legitimately elected. Even with the hacking cloud over his head and even with his losing the popular vote by record numbers, I believe that he won over voters in the right places to give him a fair and square win.
Another thing, my illiterate, ignorant, and dishonest friend, I’ve already acknowledged that in comment # 7 when I said,
So again, yes I believe that this serial lying vulgar racist and sexually assaulting con man with a history of bragging about stiffing hard working Americans out of their pay will unfortunately be our legitimately elected president.
Now, let’s see you keep your end of the bargain. Go ahead, call Redteam an ignorant dumbass for saying “but I don’t know of anyone that really thinks he (Obama) was legitimate. School July 4 American for saying “We still have no idea where he was born, how he got into Columbia and then Harvard.” in # 53. Call most of your cohorts lying fools for their repeated innuendos and statements over the years for promoting the concept that Obama wasn’t legitimate. Call Dr. John a liar for his repeated race baiting writings trying to depict President Obama as legitimate.
Now, are you going to live up to your word and disavow your very clones here and admit that Obama was legitimately elected and was a legitimate President, that this “bither” and talk of illegitimacy has all been a hoax, a scam”, lies?
Again, let me reiterate, Donald Trump was legitimately elected and will be our legitimate President.
I suspect you will weasel out of it with some watered down nonsense, some backtracking rhetoric, some chicken crap excuse of some sort. Maybe like Common Sense (yeah, right!), you can side step it with grade school name calling or cheap shots or crying about Bills White House bj or something. You don’t have the balls to be honest or keep your word.
Even if you do keep your word on your promise of “You acknowledge that Trump will be the legitimate President and I will acknowledge Obama was a legitimate President”, you are a proven liar either way. If you don’t admit it, you lie because you said you would. If you do, you have lied throughout his tenure.
I’d advise you just lie and stick with your guns that Obama is illegitimate. There really should be no shame in you adding one more stupid, ignorant, dishonest, and bigoted things to your very very long list. It’s who you are. You are the lying, stupid, ignorant, and dishonest trolling Bill that we’ve all come to know and love.
@Ajay42302: Poor little bastard you will now have to deal with the reality that Donald Tump is our President. I could care if you like it or not!! TGIF moron!!
Looks like Bill’s going to use the 3rd option of lying which is to tuck tail and run rather than manning up and admitting Obama’s legitimacy as he said you would.
@Ajay42302: What gives you the impression I ran away? Because I wasn’t waiting your unlikely return? Sorry, I was following all the coverage of the inauguration of the new and improved President.
No, I just enjoy backing you sniveling cowards into a corner. Now I have forced you to acknowledge President Trump’s legitimacy and risk censure from your fellow liberal cry babies.
Yeah, Obama was legitimate. I never denied it. Never. I will be pleased for you to show me when and where I ever said he was not legitimate, otherwise you can just apologize for lying like the lying little coward you are. Come on, AJ, put up or shut up. Maybe one day you will find that telling the truth is more productive than your constant lying.
He was also a failure. A disaster. The WORST President we have seen and are likely EVER to see. HE is a liar (like you) and he will go down in history as a lying failure.
And, Hail to the Chief, the Chief being President of the United States Donald John Trump.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
So, you are saying Redteam and July 4 American are both wrong? Or, let me guess, you need me to prove that they denounced or have strongly questioned Obama’s legitimacy? I may or may not be able to pull up quotes from you but your silent nod of consent to them, the loud theme of FA, and the birther movement that was dominant in the Trump era and what he built his campaign speaks volumes.
Or could it be that much like the word “racism”, you either don’y understand the definition or refuse to accept it, demanding your own meaning when convenient?
Your howling rants of your invented Obama “failures” have no more to do with legitimacy than my constant reminders that Trump is not only a sexually assaulting racist that has built his career as a con man and boost of stiffing workers out of their pay for a job well done.
The thing is that Obama is done. While he leaves office highly popular and will likely go down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever (mainly for pulling the county out of the disastrous Bush years, saving us from another Great Depression while working with the most defiant opposition party in history), Trump now has to make his own history. Stepping into office with the lowest popularity in history and as a flagrant liar (lock Hillary up, drain the swamp, already signing to raise homeowner interest rates, have Mexico pay for the wall, again, stilling the working class Pudzer, lying about racism with picking Sessions, and on and on) along with the huge backlash of all of these women grabbing back, your Saint Donald actually has some huges shoes to fill.
As a Democrat who was an avid critic of George W. Bush, I’d welcome him back to the WH today with open arms. I suspect Barack Obama will be more sorely missed as time passes. But I can agree that many white supremacist who were literally saluting Trump in “Heil Trump” fashion and the pick up loads of rebel flag bearers who were celebrating that night and the general “basket of deplorables” will likely never agree.
@Ajay42302: Why don’t you stop being a slimy, weaselly, lying little liberal worm just this once and address my remark. WHERE and WHEN did I, as you clearly accused, say Obama was illegitimate? SHOW us or APOLOGIZE for LYING.
You make false accusations and each and every time, when challenged, you run like the goddamn coward you are from the demand for facts off onto a tangent of even MORE lies.
There are millions and millions more just like you and together you all brought Trump into power. For, to your surprise (those who believe they are so much smarter than everyone else are usually the most stupid) millions and millions and millions MORE see right through your lying facade of racist intolerance.
So, either or, dick-less; show us where I said Obama was illegitimate or apologize for lying.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
BECAUSE; that’s who he is. A leopard can NOT change his spots
@Ajay42302:
I will certainly state that anyone that thinks Obama was a legitimate president is just not aware of the qualifications, such as ‘natural born citizen’ to become president. While it may appear to the average person that the election (for Obozo) was conducted according to law, it clearly was not because one of the first conditions is that the candidates be legally eligible. No amount of wishing, hoping or lying can change the fact that Obozo was not a natural born citizen and, in fact, is most likely not even an American citizen as of this date.
So for anyone to ‘admit’ or ‘proclaim’ that he is legitimate just to satisfy someone else is only talking semantics, not reality.
@Ajay42302:
We’ve? we’ve? You showed up here during the election, newly hired to troll us thru January in hopes of changing some minds. Well, you succeeded. While we didn’t have an opinion of you, we quickly changed our minds and realized you were an ignorant hired whore, here to prostitute yourself. No one can believe most of the BS you spew, not even you. Yes, you are fulfilling your employment obligations, (for a few more days) then it’ll be bye bye and you’ll show up in a new incarnation pretending you are someone else. We all know who disappeared when you ‘recently arrived’, we all know he had the same talking points, yes, even some of the exact same quotes. But that’s what happens when you are transcribing from a sheet of instructions.
Do you believe the crap you put out? I doubt it. It’s just a paid opinion. Do you think Obozo was legitimate? I suspect you know the truth but aren’t allowed to say it.
I guess some people just have no standards, or well maybe they do, they’re just so low no one recognizes them as such. So have a good vacation starting next month.
@Ajay42302:
You do realize that Hillary was the ‘birther’, right? Or, I guess you’re not allowed to acknowledge that. Oh well, those rules of employment are hell sometimes.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
I responded to that, quite plainly. You are consistent with your history of ignoring responses, pretending they never existed, and still demand a response.
And as stated, I may or may weed through the archived diatribes at my leisure but regardless, you do understand the words “accomplice” and abetting”, right?@RedTeam:
This is really really an old repeated lie from the right but much like death panels and Obama’s birth certificate itself, I guess you just have to keep repeating in hopes to pick up a few believers. And it may have even worked in fooling a few voters but it was just that, a tactic to fool people.
Most every credible fact checker has debunked that fantasy. It may lead back to the early 2008 campaign and may have came from a few Hillary supporters but never came from Hillary herself. The claim about Clinton’s tie to “birthers” was made by Trump last February at the CPAC event where he said “Hillary Clinton wanted his birth certificate. Hillary is a birther. She wanted … but she was unable to get it.”
2 things there. 1 is that Trump is a well known serial liar (hell, even just today on Fox News the rabid right Chris Wallace said “there needs to be some discussion about the president’s honesty” and the likes of the unhinged Washington Standard wrote “on Day 2 of the administration to begin his relationship with the press by insisting on a blatant, demonstrably false, lie. And please understand: That’s what this is. It is not spin, or misrepresentation, or cutting a fine line. It’s a deliberate lie”.
So your argument is based on something a well known lying money grabber said while appealing for money.
And even if your lie had an iota of merit, Trump elevated the birther movement and pushed it to the very end whereas the best your crap can do is to say that Hillary merely mentioned it (which she didn’t).
Again, this has all been explained for months and among people of reasonable intelligence and not consumed with blind partisan hate, isn’t even arguable. But like I’ve said, facts and reality that don’t suit the agenda of irrational bigoted Trump lickers like yourself doesn’t matter.
@ajay42302: That’s the response they told you to give? Wow. how impressive. First the birther issue was raised by Hillary in 2008, not by Trump last year. The issue was discussed many times here on FA way before Trump ever mentioned it. Had you been a regular here you would know that.
So that’s one of the talking points they gave you for today. Did they mention that Chris Wallace’s honesty is much more of an issue than Trump. Wallace inherited way too many liberal genes from his dad.
Would you please tell your handlers to come up with some new talking points, the same old, same old is getting tiresome. Oh, and in case they didn’t know it, you might pass on that Trump is the president. Tell them to include that in their talking points so that you can remember it and not have to be reminded. Only 9 more days for AJ. You already got your new job lined up? Another troll gig?
@ajay42302: You actually revel in being a gutless piece of lying trash, don’t you? Hillary started the ENTIRE birther question. Then, there was no birth certificate to be found.
I’ve never dodged a single question though you have LIED about my response.
On the “legitimacy” issue, some of us can disagree for a variety of reasons, but we don’t stoop to lying about each other or what has been said, as you do on a regular basis.
So, lie on, AJ. It is your only capability. I think I speak for us all here; you are regarded as a joke.
@RedTeam:
” Wow. how impressive. First the birther issue was raised by Hillary in 2008, not by Trump last year. The issue was discussed many times here on FA way before Trump ever mentioned it. Had you been a regular here”
Once more, a Hillary reporter mentioned Obama’s birthplace, not Hillary. But I guess, well if it was discussed many times on the prominent and bipartisan FloppingAces websites by their top tier political pundits, well, isn’t my face red?
Chris Wallace is a liberal?
Forget to mention The Washington Standard? Maybe your board needs to discuss that?
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
“I think I speak for us all her”
Oh, I have absolutely no doubt.
@Ajay42302:
Hmmm….
Hillary never denied the birther accuastion which SHE initiated, so she has full ownership of it by the very rules you lay out. For, since she didn’t deny or denounce it, she obviously believed and promoted it. Right?
You take all the time you need to find those quotes of mine. I’ll be around. I don’t expect, though, a dick-less liar to expend energy to find what he already KNOWS does not exist. So your “And as stated, I may or may (sic) weed through the archived diatribes at my leisure” declaration is simply another lie of yours… in a long, long, long list of lies.
@Ajay42302:
Why would I mention it, I’ve never heard of it.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
So, Hillary is the founder of birther because a group of partisan hacks on a partisan hack blog says she failed to denounce it whereas Trump gets a pass after constantly promoting it and using it as a foundation for his campaign?
Do you clowns even hear yourselves?
@RedTeam:
Being ignorant of politics isn’t nessasarily a bad thing. Remaining so, particurly when trying to portray yourself as a political pundit or even remotely knowledgeable? That just doesn’t speak well.
And with a understanding of your low intellect level of debating skills and your elementary knee jerk retorts, no, I’m not talking about me.
@Ajay42302: Yeah, HER partisan hacks.
Did she denounce it? You determine that to be full complicity.
Remember the oblique remark from Duke which you lying liberals exaggerated into a KKK endorsement and, even though Trump denounced it and the KKK, you pathetic grasping-at-straws idiots turned Trump into a Klansman over it? When we use that logic, Hillary has her name all over the birther movement. Just on the merits of her turning a blind eye to it and not denouncing it, she still owns it.
Provide the example where Trump was
That should be really easy, since it was, as you claim, constant. Then you can include the apology for THAT lie along with your apology for lying about me and Obama’s legitimacy.