John Lewis re-evaluates civil rights museum visit after Donald Trumps RSVP
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, said he will re-evaluate his plans to speak at the ribbon-cutting of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum this weekend amid reports that he would be sharing a stage with President Donald Trump.
“It’s going to be very difficult for me to be there and be on the same platform with him,” the civil rights leader and 30-year congressman said of the president in an interview Wednesday.
Lewis had been planning to attend a reception at the Jackson, Miss.-based museum on Friday and speak at the facility’s opening ceremony on Saturday. But he said Trump’s presence at the event would be inappropriate given the commander-in-chief’s response to white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., this summer.
“I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better,” Lewis said.
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