The feud between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon
John Lewis took on added meaning Monday, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Day holiday, with Trump in his Manhattan apartment building and Lewis
leading an event honoring King.
Trump used Twitter to mark the holiday, calling
on people to "Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and all of the many
wonderful things that he stood for." Trump also will meet privately with
King's son, Martin Luther King 3rd, spokesman Sean Spicer said. He had
no public events planned.
Lewis, meanwhile, is set to be the keynote speaker at a King
scholarship breakfast in Miami. The legendary Freedom Rider and top
organizer of the 1963 March on Washington seems intent on making Trump
his new fight.
Lewis said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, that he doesn't believe Trump is a "legitimate president" and
that he wouldn't be attending the presidential inauguration for the
first time in his 30-year political career, citing the intelligence
community's explosive findings over Russian hacking of the presidential election.
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