Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your 'crime infested' district

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday morning returned fire on a top Democrat who said he was not a “legitimate president.”

A day after Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said Trump was not legitimate, the president-elect told him to worry about his own district instead.

“Congressman 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. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314325-trump-rips-john-lewis-worry-about-your-crime-infested-district

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Links to Trump's idiotic tweets:


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820251730407473153

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820255947956383744


As anyone rational (Trump obviously isn't) would expect, Twitler is already getting lots of negative responses on Twitter.

[highplainsdem]

1. ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum calls this the worst of Trump's many reprehensible tweets:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/820257890841874432

[MBS]

43. which is saying something.

What a grotesque, and, yes, deplorable, man.

[OKNancy]

2. Trump took the bait

Nothing will energize the Democratic opposition like slamming John Lewis.

[Dustlawyer]

13. Lawrence O'Donnell practically dared him to attack Lewis last night!

I knew he would when Lawrence said he wouldn't dare.

Trump, Rep Lewis is a House member in the minority party, he is not able to do much if anything right now thanks to your party. As POTUS what are you going to do for these people. You represent ALL AMERICANS!!!!

[bullwinkle428]

28. Bingo - Charlie Pierce was basically saying, just wait for the overnight Tweet-storm.

He is truly sinking lower and lower with every reprehensible cyber-proclamation.

[joshcryer]

82. Lewis was trashed for months for his support of Hillary.

The left is fragmented and losing it.

[Arazi]

83. No, he caught flack for intentionally misleading @ Sanders' civil rights activism

http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights

Please note jury, I'm not re-fighting the primary, I'd like to think DUers want facts

[Mc Mike]

3. And der dRumpfenfuhrer KNOWS 'crime infested'.

Ask his buddies John Cody, Joe Weichselbaum, Nicky Scarfo, Tony Salerno, Felix Sater, etc.

Etc.

Etc.

[mpcamb]

73. Wall Street is the crime infested neighborhood. Let's clean that up.

[Mc Mike]

81. That's what's really great about il Douche A the orange cannon mouth.

Since he's a half-assed, fake aristocrat, and a half assed, fake wiseguy, he's equally comfortable with real organized criminals and real corporate scum felons, alike. He can get along with both Joey No Socks and Steve Mnuchin, is equally at home when pal-ling around with bloated tick nazi plutocrats like Robert Mercer and crime family enforcers like John Staluppi.

He's a uniter, not a divider.

[RT Atlanta]

4. Ridiculous

First, as poster noted above, he did take the bait. What happens when the North Korean leader starts throwing barbs at him in a few weeks?

More personally, living in Atlanta, I can tell you that Congressman Lewis's district is of course not at all as represented by iPEOTUS. It's a wonderful part of my city and has a broad spectrum of Socio economic diversity - like every other major city in this country.

It was the barbs at this civil rights hero, and my hometown, that push me over the edge for logging in and posting for the first time in years.

iPeotus - can we coin that term?

[CurtEastPoint]

17. I live in the 5th and Mr Lewis is exceptional. Drumpf slammed a lot of good folks.

[3catwoman3]

56. Too lazy to go searching just now.

What does the "I" in iPeotus stand for?

Thnx.

[Retrograde]

65. Illegitimate? Irritating? Idiotic?

Ill-informed? Ideologue? Irrational?

[3catwoman3]

66. They all fit.

I to the 6th power.

[not fooled]

67. That's good

Also POTUS*

*with the asterisk carrying the same stigma as with baseball records, i.e. there's something wrong here.

People will continue to think of even more ways with derogatory implications to refer to the incoming illegitimate occupant of the White House.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. The same time Drumpf was shipped off to military school...

...John Lewis was LITERALLY putting his very LIFE on the line for the rights of ALL Americans!!!!



Now THAT'S "Sad!"

[Botany]

27. Courage and class

[not fooled]

68. But, but...

?uuid=72AV0rb8EeWKvNCTku3GEg

What a contrast.

[Botany]

70. Trump's military school was reform school for rich kids

Even as a kid the man was an asshole

[ProudProgressiveNow]

38. +1 nt

[KewlKat]

6. I stand with Rep Lewis

"I believe in forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It will be hard. It's going to be very difficult. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president,” Lewis said.

“I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton,” he added.

“I don't plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.”

[Wellstone ruled]

77. Yes,I do agree.

This will come back on the Republican Party many times over.

Buyers remorse is already setting in,now we have to harness it for a Democratic Congress in 2018.

[highplainsdem]

7. Response from Evan McMullin:

https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/820262848148414464

While you avoided the draft, John Lewis risked his life for equality in America. You'll never even dream of such selfless patriotism, Donald

[sinkingfeeling]

10. +1000

[KewlKat]

11. Like....only thing I would have added would have been the number of times he

avoided the draft. 5

[AgadorSparticus]

39. +1,000!!! Speak it, Evan McMullin!!

[Xipe Totec]

8. Another Fail Whale nt

[spiderpig]

9. It says all we have to say that we expected a churlish, juvenile response from The Twitter in Chief

In my wildest dreams I never thought we'd sink to having a total bully like this is in the Oval Office. And I was around for Nixon/Reagan.

[Norbert]

12. John Lewis, changing history.

and at the same time Donald Trump is devising ways of getting inside the pants of unwilling girls. Now THAT is .sad.

[DesertRat]

14. "Crime infested" is a racist dog whistle

That disgusting POS should have his personal Twitter account taken away when he becomes POTUS.

[TexasBushwhacker]

75. Yup. If a bunch of black people live there

it must be a crime infested hellhole. Atlanta's violent crime rate is relatively low for a city of its size.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Absolutely disqualifying attitude

a leader is a President for all the people, even when he disagrees with them

GWB at least made the effort to sound like he stood for all. You knew he didn't
exactly mean it, but he tried, he soothed, he was on both sides.

Trump is really dividing us here. What happened to lifting up the inner cities?

[NBachers]

16. Trump is a shit-bug; John Lewis is a giant among men; a hero. Trump's cabinet is full of criminals,

miscreants, and disturbed sociopaths.

[vlyons]

35. Yes they are criminals

I take every opportunity I can to point out that criminals are now in charge. Traitor Trump is our Con-artist in Chief. Everyone knew that he would tweet some vile and stupid comment about John Lewis. Well he just keeps showing us how stupid and depraved he is. The American people are going to get more and more disgusted with this man. Obama just keeps looking better and better.

[highplainsdem]

18. Response from Matthew Dowd (like McMullin, a conservative):

https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/820265522579259392

Trump saying John Lewis is "all talk" would be like Jay Cutler saying Tom Brady is "all talk". Don't think this is the battle trump wants.

https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/820266482525491200

Definition of bad strategy: trump saying 50 year fighter for civil rights John Lewis is "all talk" over Martin Luther King holiday weekend.

[safeinOhio]

19. Trump needs to get off tweeter

and start loooking into war crime charges against his BFF Putin.

[longship]

29. No. NO!!!!! Give him another shovel!!!

And encourage him to keep digging.

Deeper, Drumpf, DIG DEEPER! That hole is not nearly deep enough!

[safeinOhio]

31. He has already hit rock bottom.

Toss him a pick to go with the shovel.

[longship]

32. Indeed, my friend. Let him Tweet all he wants.

Shit! Give him a fucking pile driver!

My best to you.

[Thinkingabout]

20. Funny Trump should say this, in a few days it will be Trump's crime infested nation,

The burden of making America great is Trump's responsibility.

[TrishaJ]

21. Rep Lewis is MY congressman and I live

in this district. Trump is WRONG. My neighborhood is growing by leaps and bounds where the sidewalks have been upgraded, streets have been improved and repaved, new photon cancer treatment center, new high rise condominiums, LOTS of tearing down the old to build new. Don't know where Trump is getting his info from (other than his ass). I've been here many years and I don't know of the "crime infestation" his "majesty" is referring to. My Goddess, what have we gotten into with this batshit crazy egomaniac ignorant TWIT??

[Thinkingabout]

23. Trump Towers is crime infested with fraud and crime, they have a horrible resident.

[TrishaJ]

24. And at one point, we were going to get a TRUMP TOWER a few blocks

down. Evidently that has been cancelled, so we will avoid said crime infested building.

[Thinkingabout]

44. You probably need to keep those like Trump out.

[Lucky Luciano]

33. Well you know what the fuhrer means.

Lewis is black, so he must represent a very black area...which therefore means continuous street crime, rape, mugging, and drug dealing.

Or something like that is the fuhrer's thought process...his followers will eat it up.

[nolabear]

46. Thank you for weighing in! I've been spreading the site about your district:

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/my-congressional-district/

Plug in Georgia and 5th Congressional District and everyone can see how much y'all have to be proud of.

[MFM008]

62. Trisha

He makes shit up out of fat air.
He knows most of the empty brain cased idiots that
Voted for him are as racist as he is and get off on his twitter porn.

[Laurian]

22. I think the number of Democrats who will not attend the "inauguration" will increase, now.

[bettyellen]

53. Let it be sparsely attended and protest the next day with us!

[BigDemVoter]

25. The fact that our low life PEOTUS

would even have the gall to utter Congressman John Lewis's name is repelling.

Nonetheless, let's hope tRump continues his rant, as he will most certainly lose yet more credibility, as Congressman Lewis is one of the most respected and dignified members of Congress. People will see this for what it is--an unelected, ignorant, illegitimate person squatting in the WH hurling racist insults. This horror is just starting, but I thank Congressman Lewis for his bravery in speaking up as well as for his integrity.

[randr]

26. The Twitler rises to the occasion. I hope Rep. Lewis sets the hook deep.

As with all bullies, sooner or later, some one brave enough stands up to them directly.
Shame will be the most useful tool to bring this asshole down.

[tblue37]

57. Sinks to the occasion. nt

[randr]

58. Thanks for the correction

[onenote]

30. Dear mr trump: starting Jan 21 the White House will be crime infested

[MFM008]

63. Rat infested

More like it.

[cstanleytech]

34. Trump is in for a rude awakening as the strategy of deflect, distract, deflect, distract is going to

blowup in his face one day.

[Achilleaze]

36. ILLEGITIMATE (R)

Not just Comrade Casino and his cabal of Russian-Republican Evil Empire Symps, but the whole freaking tainted Republican "majority" in the House and Senate.

The whole freaking KGOP is complicit, tainted, treasonous, and illegitimate.

[iluvtennis]

47. +10000000000000000000

[TheCowsCameHome]

37. Donald took the bait again.

Just as predictable as the sun rising in the east

[Sunlei]

40. trump always uses The Hill Headline to get out his twitter main message of hate.

[Calista241]

41. I work in midtown Atlanta, which is John Lewis's district.

Outside the windows of my office building, i can see 5 high rise buildings being built. I know it's just anecdotal, but that's a damn impressive building boom that's viewable from my windows.

Now down by the airport, which is also in Lewis's district, there is a fair amount of urban blight.

[Hoyt]

54. Lot's of nice areas in his district. Heck, I feel safer there than some of the white wing enclaves

in north or south Georgia -- that went for Trump -- where confederate flags and primitive Baptist churches are common.

Trump needs to get out of his gilded tower, surrounded by white wing racists, and look around.

[riversedge]

42. ThinkProgress: On MLK weekend, Trump smears civil rights hero John Lewis as a slumlord

Tara Culp-Ressler
Senior Editor at ThinkProgress. Contact me: [email protected]
1 hr ago


On MLK weekend, Trump smears civil rights hero John Lewis as a slumlord
Trump attacked Lewis for being “all talk, no actions.”

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-smears-john-lewis-twitter-4fdcf12b18d#.9059jvde7








Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

Early Saturday morning, President-elect Donald Trump attacked the Georgia congressman and famed civil rights hero John Lewis for being “all talk, no action” and presiding over a “crime infested” district that’s “falling apart.”

The thinly veiled racial smear — essentially suggesting Lewis is a slumlord — came on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as the nation prepares to honor the civil rights leader with whom Lewis worked closely in the 1960s to advocate for racial and economic justice.

Trump’s assertion that Lewis is presiding over a failing and crime-ridden district is not true. The predominantly black district represented by Lewis includes very nice parts of Atlanta and its suburbs that can hardly be described as in “horrible shape.” Since 2009, crime has fallen by 30 percent in his district.

Trump — who frequently uses his Twitter platform to lash out against his critics — was responding to recent comments from Lewis saying that he does not see the president-elect as “legitimate” because of apparent Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians and others to help him get elected. That’s not right. That’s not fair. That’s not the open democratic process,” Lewis told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in an interview set to air on Sunday morning...........................

[DallasNE]

45. Donald Trump Is Deranged

This is not news as his derangement has been on display from the start. Here he is openly racist but that is not new either as that too has been on display from the start.

What I still can't wrap my hands around is how this sick person could develop such a large following. He has never shown any sense of decency or class in spite of all of his money. Obama made everybody feel good and to be a proud American in large measure because of his decency and class. His outgoing poll numbers are near an all-time high for outgoing president and then America elects the polar opposite. There is just no way to wrap your hands around such an aberration.

[Angry Dragon]

48. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!

Trump was looking in the mirror when he wrote that

[Retrograde]

49. I'd say T. doesn't know who Mr. Lewis is

much less his history - other than someone who's said something uncomplimentary about him. Which is just as bad in another way.

How is this guy going to last a month in office? He can't put up with a fraction of the crap he flung at Obama: I can't wait until Congress and the press - not to mention the rest of the known universe - really take the gloves off come inauguration day.

[hatrack]

51. He probably just thought, "Oh, here's a black Congressman insulting me - get the doghorn!"

Since, as we know, all districts represented by African-Americans are crime-ridden hellholes, desperate for the healing touch of President Mean-Tweet.

One wonders if the word "uppity" drifted through his largely vacant mind . . .

[3catwoman3]

60. "One wonders if the word "uppity" drifted through his largely vacant mind . . ."

Let's guess. I vote "yes."

[hatrack]

64. You know, I really can't disagree with your assessment!

[tblue37]

59. When someone told him he should not have attacked a gold star family,

he had to ask what a gold star family is. I am quite sure this ignorant fool has no idea about who John Lewis is or what he has accomplished.

[world wide wally]

50. One thing you can bet on for certain is that the food is better in Lewis's district than it is

at Trump Tower

[Hoyt]

55. Without question.

[qanda]

52. Nice way to start off MLK weekend

As a black person, this has me so angry. I don't hate many people but Trump is making me hate.

[Greywing]

71. As a white person this has infuriated me ... I do hate Trump with a passion

Black, white, green or purple - this should make any American angry!

[Blue Idaho]

61. Not My President.

I stand with history and John Lewis against racists and tyrants.

[hexola]

69. Send Steve Harvey down there!

Wonder if Harvey's having second thoughts about his new pal?

[Initech]

72. Hey Trump, if you want to clean up crime, start with your own organization!

[dalton99a]

74. Projection as usual from a den of thieves called the Trump Tower

[Gothmog]

76. Trump is truly ignorant

[Rex]

78. So ALL urban areas are decaying and ruled over by black gangs? Is that what Rump thinks?

I am trying to grasp his level of awareness. I cannot go way big or way small and I think his is down on the micro level.

[Barbara2423]

79. John Lewis is a leader not a talker.

John Lewis has done more for this country than Trump will ever do with his tiny little fingers.

[riderinthestorm]

80. Disgusting nt