{"id":63314,"date":"2017-01-15T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T19:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63314"},"modified":"2017-01-15T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T19:31:17","slug":"trump-blasts-rep-john-lewis-worry-about-your-crime-infested-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63314","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blasts Rep. John Lewis: Worry About Your &#8216;Crime Infested&#8217; District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4fb4752d-8b04-40eb-ae0a-7b33af7fc24d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63315\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4fb4752d-8b04-40eb-ae0a-7b33af7fc24d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4fb4752d-8b04-40eb-ae0a-7b33af7fc24d.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4fb4752d-8b04-40eb-ae0a-7b33af7fc24d-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sandy Fitzgerald<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump early Saturday morning slammed a Georgia lawmaker&#8217;s statements about the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/john-lewis-donald-trump-not-legitimate\/2017\/01\/13\/id\/768488\/\">legitimacy of his election,<\/a><\/strong> saying he should focus his attention to the problems going on in his own district.<\/p>\n<p>In a pair of tweets addressed to Democratic Rep. John Lewis, 76, a civil rights leader who has represented Georgia&#8217;s fifth Congressional district since 1987, Trump wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/820251730407473153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk &#8211; no action or results. Sad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/820255947956383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Congressional District includes the state&#8217;s capital, Atlanta, as well as its surrounding suburbs, and covers parts of Fulton, Dekalb, and Clayton counties, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Georgia%27s_5th_Congressional_District\">Ballotpedia.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview to air on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/john-lewis-trump-won-t-be-legitimate-president-n706676\">NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Sunday, <\/a><\/strong>Lewis said he thinks Trump&#8217;s victory is not valid because of Russia&#8217;s actions to influence the results, including hacking into and releasing Democratic emails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected,&#8221; Lewis said in the interview. &#8220;And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While many of Trump&#8217;s Twitter followers applauded the tweets, others quickly jumped on to post photographs of Lewis participating in civil rights protests in the 1960s, as well as of him speaking:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PRV1rMFIBX\">pic.twitter.com\/PRV1rMFIBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ditzkoff\/status\/820253081459949568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanUhl\/status\/820256133386473472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Lewis also says in the upcoming interview that he will not attend Trump&#8217;s inauguration ceremonies, set for next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/John-Lewis-Twitter-Trump\/2017\/01\/14\/id\/768557\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/John-Lewis-Twitter-Trump\/2017\/01\/14\/id\/768557\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}