Trump Blasts Civil Rights Icon John Lewis On Twitter
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(CBSNEWS) - President-elect Donald Trump railed against civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, in two tweets Saturday morning, following the congressman's plans to boycott next week's inauguration.
The president-elect disparaged Lewis as "All talk, talk talk - no action or results" and attacking him for representing a Georgia district Mr. Trump claimed was "crime infested" and "falling apart."
The attacks, launched just two days before the nation celebrates the civil rights legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., follow Lewis' decision to sit out the presidential inauguration Friday. On missing the ceremony -- the first in three decades that Lewis will not be present for -- the Georgia Democrat told NBC in an interview, "you cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong."