Former President Barack Obama’s eulogy for the late Congressman John Lewis was “terrible” and “totally inappropriate,” President Trump said in an exclusive interview with “Fox & Friends” …
Former President Barack Obama’s eulogy for the late Congressman John Lewis was “terrible” and “totally inappropriate,” President Trump said in an exclusive interview with “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. In his remarks, Obama recalled Lewis’ storied efforts as a leader of the civil rights movement while issuing a political call to action. At one point, Obama referenced George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody, the Trump administration sending in federal agents to handle protesters and violent demonstrators, as well as challenges to mail-in voting during this “urgent” upcoming election. “Today, we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans,” Obama said last week. “George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.” Obama also said: “We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot, but even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.
