{"id":407804,"date":"2017-01-15T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=407804"},"modified":"2017-01-15T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:24:05","slug":"mike-pence-responds-to-donald-trump-john-lewis-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/01\/mike-pence-responds-to-donald-trump-john-lewis-disagreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence responds to Donald Trump – John Lewis disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ Vice President-elect Mike Pence said he found Rep. John Lewis\u2019s criticism of President-elect Donald Trump \u201cdeeply disappointing\u201d — and that Mr. Trump, who lambasted Lewis on Twitter this weekend, \u201chas every right to defend himself.\u201d
\u201cDonald Trump won this election fair and square, 30 out of 50 states, including Georgia,\u201d he told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201c… To hear John Lewis — a man that I served with, that I respect — to question the legitimacy of the election and to say that Donald Trump will not be a legitimate president was deeply disappointing to me.\u201d
\u201cTo hear that he was not going to attend the inauguration this Friday — I hope he reconsiders both statements,\u201d Pence said.
Lewis, in an interview with NBC last week, said he did not plan to attend the inauguration this Friday — his first time missing the ceremony in three decades — and questioned Mr. Trump\u2019s legitimacy as president.
\u201cI don\u2019t see this president-elect as a legitimate president,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.\u201d
In response, Mr. Trump said Lewis — one of the most visible members of the Civil Rights Movement — is \u201call talk, talk – no action or results,\u201d and said Lewis\u2019s Georgia district is \u201ccrime infested\u201d and \u201cfalling apart.\u201d
Why, moderator John Dickerson, did Mr. Trump feel the need to take a swing at Lewis rather than just letting the comments go?
Mr. Trump \u201chas every right to defend himself,\u201d Pence said, suggesting that Lewis\u2019s comments about election legitimacy seemingly conflict with his status as a leader for voting rights.
\u201cWe honor the sacrifice that he made but part of the result of what happened on Bloody Sunday [in 1965] and the courage that he showed was the Voting Rights Act,\u201d he said. \u201cSo for someone of his stature not just in the civil rights movement but in voting rights to make a comment that he did not consider Donald Trump to be a legitimate president, I think, is deeply disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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