Seth Meyers put the president-elect on blast for his attacks on John Lewis
The John Lewis and Donald Trump feud has been boiling over for the past few days. Left-leaning pundits argue that the president-elect’s claim that Lewis is “all talk” is a complete dismissal of the congressman’s history in fighting for civil rights, while those on the right say Trump’s statement had nothing to do with civil […]
Outcry over Trump attack on civil rights icon John Lewis
American civil rights activists have begun a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president next Friday. In Washington an estimated 2,000 mostly black demonstrators marched in driving rain on Saturday near the capital’s Martin Luther King memorial. Their aim: to fight to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice […]
Congressman Lewis fires back and tells Trump what real action is as Atlanta seethes over the president-elect’s tweets
Congressman John Lewis shot back at President-elect Donald Trump and his denigrating tweets with his own fire in a Democratic National Convention email that went out Saturday night. For a quick refresher of how this war of words started, Lewis told NBC News “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Dodd in an exclusive interview that he […]