interview<\/a> in which that Georgia lawmaker told host Chuck Todd that \u201cI don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected,\u201d Lewis explained when asked why he views Trump as illegitimate. \u201cAnd they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump responded, as he often does, on Twitter, lashing out at Lewis Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter, breaking his message into two posts. \u201cAll talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Sad!\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis, a member of Congress since 1987, represents Georgia\u2019s 5th district, which encompasses much of the city of Atlanta. As a young man, he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. Lewis also spoke at the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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Lewis is part of a group of Democratic lawmakers who have said they will not attend Trump\u2019s inauguration on Friday. Speaking to \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d Pence said \u201cthis is a week where we ought to be coming together,\u201d noting that four of the five living presidents will attend the event, with only former President George H.W. Bush missing due to health reasons. The presidential inauguration \u201cis a testament to the world of the vibrancy of our democracy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In his own interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show, incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer blamed the back-and-forth on the Georgia Democrat, telling host Tamron Hall that \u201cyou know, Congressman Lewis started this.\u201d Lewis\u2019s comments were made all the worse, Spicer said, because they fell over the long weekend marking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have this icon of voting and civil rights claiming that an election was illegitimate, when there’s zero evidence of that. Everybody has confirmed that the election was duly held. There was no tampering with anything,\u201d Spicer said. \u201cAnd to see somebody of John Lewis’ stature, and iconic nature, who has worked so hard to enfranchise people and talk about getting people involved in our voting systems and getting and talking about the integrity of our voting system, to then go out when the candidate of his choice doesn’t win, and try to talk about the delegitimization of the election is frankly disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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