Trump doubles down on attack against Rep. John Lewis, blasts civil rights icon as liar

WASHINGTON β€” Donald Trump isn’t ready to let it go with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).

Trump returned to his attacks against Lewis, a civil rights icon who the President-elect has been railing against for days over his decision to boycott Trump’s inauguration.

“John Lewis said about my inauguration, β€˜It will be the first one that I’ve missed.’ WRONG (or lie)! He boycotted Bush 43 also,” Trump tweeted before quoting a 2001 Washington Post story that said Lewis skipped President George W. Bush’s swearing-in because he “thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush’s swearing-in because he doesn’t believe Bush is the true elected president.”

The attacks are Trump’s latest aimed at Lewis, a student civil rights leader who organized the original March on Washington and endured multiple beatings β€” including one at the Edmund Pettus bridge where his skull was fractured.(nydailynews)…[+]