The president-elect’s response was rife with irony: Trump did so at the beginning of a weekend dedicated to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., over something Trump himself has done repeatedly. Trump built his political name on a more than five-year effort to de-legitimize President Obama by falsely claiming that he was foreign-born. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. In 2015, Obama joined Lewis and other civil rights veterans for a 50th anniversary walk over the bridge at which Lewis was wounded. “John Lewis is an icon of the civil rights movement who is fearless in the pursuit of justice and equality,” said Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 14, 2017 16:06 UTC