Trump assesses John Lewis' legacy: 'He didn't come to my inauguration' | via nytimes
US President Donald Trump played down the accomplishments of Rep. John Lewis, the recently deceased civil rights icon, and criticized him for not attending the Trump inauguration in an interview conducted while Lewis was lying in state at the Capitol.
When asked to reflect on Lewis’ contributions to the civil rights movement, Trump instead talked up his own record. On that day, March 7, 1965, Lewis suffered a cracked skull during a march across the bridge when a state trooper clubbed him and beat him to the ground. The moment was a defining one in his life and in the civil rights movement. Trump, in the Axios interview, suggested there “were many others also” whose work should be praised.
“I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected,” Lewis said in a television interview days before Trump took office. “And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. I don’t plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in the Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.”
Trump repeatedly played down the virus throughout the spring, and did so again in the interview, insisting that cases are falling in places where they aren’t.
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