The feud between Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Donald Trump is pretty crazy, but not as crazy as Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s contribution to this bit of pre-inauguration unpleasantness.
The Georgia lawmaker and the president-elect have been sniping at each since this weekend, when Lewis, a civil rights hero, announced he’d boycott the inauguration. Lewis said he doesn’t think Trump is a legitimate president. The Queens businessman responded by saying Lewis is a lousy and incompetent congressman.
Now in bursts Paul LePage, like a drunken, more destructive version of the Kool-Aid Man, adds this extremely unhelpful bit of idiocy:
You know, I will just say this. John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves. It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple “thank you” would suffice.
LePage promised in 2016 that he’d never speak to media “ever again” following the leak of an embarrassing, profanity laced voicemail that he left Democratic state Rep. Drew Gattine.
It’s a pity he didn’t stick to his resolution.
