Black Panther-turned conservative author and activist Mason Weaver says after taking a beating for civil rights, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) joined his “oppressors” in the Democratic Party and has since assisted in the “destruction of black America.”
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak was a Breitbart News Daily guest on Tuesday to talk about his new book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution.
President-elect Donald Trump continued his feud with Democratic Congressman John Lewis after the civil rights legend said he does not believe Trump is a “legitimate president” and that this is the first inauguration he will not attend.
During an interview broadcast on MSNBC’s “The Obama Years with Brian Williams” on Monday, Representative John Lewis (D-GA) said no one since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had inspired him “the way that Barack Obama inspired me.” Lewis said, “No
On Monday’s “MTP Daily,” Rev. Al Sharpton stated that there was “no question” that the process that elected President-Elect Donald Trump “was not legitimate.” Sharpton said, “I think that there’s no question that the process that elected him was not
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued Representative John Lewis’ (D-GA) statement about President-Elect Donald Trump not being legitimate is “a sign of the, sort of loosening of the threads of our sort
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated, “all of this discord that we see going on between congressmen not attending, people basically saying he’s [President-Elect Donald Trump] not legitimate, basically then the Russians have accomplished
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Rep. John Lewis’s comments about President-elect Donald Trump were “uncalled for.”
“Today, Donald Trump attacked me on Twitter. He said that I’m ‘all talk’ and ‘no action,'” reads a DNC fundraising email sent Saturday. “I’ve been beaten bloody, tear-gassed, fighting for what’s right for America. I’ve marched at Selma with Dr. King. Sometimes that’s what it takes to move our country in the right direction.”
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokewoman for Attorney General designee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), criticized Democrats that decried the legitimacy of President Barack Obama’s presidency, but are now engaging in the same thing with
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in commenting on Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) saying, “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president,” and the controversy over President-elect Trump’s tweets criticizing Lewis, Sen. Rand Paul said (R-KY) Lewis is not
After causing controversy in a clip released Friday of the pre-taped interview by saying “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president,” Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) said it would be “almost impossible” for
Outgoing White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough declined to call President-elect Donald Trump “legitimate” when questioned by CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday morning.
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is a civil rights hero. He is also one of the most partisan members of the Democratic Party, and frequently accuses his political opponents, falsely, of racism.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), who represents Hollywood and the West Side of Los Angeles, has announced that he will boycott the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday.
North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber weighed in on the brewing feud between Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and President-elect Donald Trump after Lewis said Trump was not a “legitimate president” and Trump fired back with criticisms of Lewis for his
Reacting to Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) saying Donald Trump is not a legitimate president, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) suggested Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” that there may be “mounting evidence” that the president-elect is indeed not a
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to Representative John Lewis (D-GA) saying that President-Elect Donald Trump isn’t “legitimate” by asking, “Whatever happened to when we — they go low, we go high?” Brooks said, “Whatever happened to
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Democratic Georgia Rep. John Lewis should pay more attention to the crime plaguing his district than bellyache over the election results.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” host Anderson Cooper reacted to Representative John Lewis’ (D-GA) declaration that he doesn’t view President-Elect Donald Trump as “legitimate” by saying “if a Republican had said this about a President-Elect Hillary Clinton, Democrats would
During an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd for “Meet the Press” on Friday, Representative John Lewis (D-GA) stated, “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president. … I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians,
On Wednesday, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) — head of the Congressional Black Caucus — blasted the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to have three black members of Congress testify last at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) Tuesday confirmation hearing for attorney general, saying it was the equivalent of being sent to the “back of the bus.”
During the confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Congressional Black Caucus Chair Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA) argued that putting Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) at the end of the witness panels for
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump should apologize for questioning if President Obama was born in the United States. Lewis said, “I thought it was shameful. Everybody, every reasonable person
Flanked by liberal legislatures like John Lewis and Black Lives Matter founders Brittany Packnett and DeRay Mckesson, President Obama told the room full of young militant leftists that they “are much better organizers” than he was at their age, and that he is “confident that they are going to take America to new heights.”
Rep. John Lewis issued a statement Thursday downplaying Bernie Sanders’s role in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Speaking on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rep. Lewis said, “I never saw him. I never met him.” Lewis then added, “But I met Hillary Clinton.”
Civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) compared Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump to segregationist George Wallace in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.
On Monday’s “MSNBC Live” CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent stated that President Obama’s election was “the most dramatic way Dr. King’s promise was redeemed” while discussing an interview with Representative John Lewis (D-GA), who remarked, “Obama being treated different because of
There seems to be universal consensus that between the reduced number of participants, and the quality of the debate questions and follow-up from the panelists, the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate was the strongest by way of policy substance thus far.
The Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary commemoration continued Sunday with gatherings and other events in Selma before a group retraces the steps that helped secure equal voting rights 50 years ago.
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) remembered the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama where police attacked Civil Rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery on “Bloody Sunday” 50 years ago on Saturday. Lewis thanked those in attendance at
In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, the moment when the momentum shifted decisively against Hillary Clinton was when the New York Senator embroiled herself in a controversy over whether President Lyndon Baines Johnson or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deserved
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus are suggesting that President Barack Obama invite the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner to his State of the Union address in January. According to The Hill, Lewis
On Sunday, President Barack Obama said that Ferguson should not be compared to Selma and did not rule out making a visit to Ferguson after the grand jury announces its decision on whether to indict officer Darren Wilson. Rep. John
LONDON (AP) — Artillery booms. A trench comes into view. Soldiers huddle into their overcoats for warmth. The scene is the unlikely backdrop for a holiday commercial that has many Britons reaching for hankies — and others demanding it be
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended his Socialist government against a stream of criticism of its economic and business reforms during a visit to London. “My government is pro-business!” he told British business leaders in English at the Guildhall in
The boss of British retailing giant John Lewis has launched into a diatribe against France, labelling the country “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat”, and advising investors to pull out as quickly as possible. The company tried to brush off the remarks
After a week of riots and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law professor who was President Barack Obama’s mentor, predicted that this is just the beginning of more unrest. After police shot and killed Michael Brown last weekend, Ogletree
On Sunday, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) said Ferguson, Missouri police chief Tom Jackson and local leaders should apologize to the community for their handling of Michael Brown’s death. “Well, I think that the police chief and the mayor and other
President Barack Obama’s mentor and Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree said Darren Wilson, the officer who reportedly shot and killed Michael Brown, should be arrested. “I think the first thing that needs to happen [is] we need to arrest Officer
