His autobiography, Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, sold out on Amazon with used copies going for nearly a hundred dollars. One of the by-products of the dispute was that Lewis’ books experienced resurgence in sales. Furthermore, many of them pointed out that his district, which includes some of the more affluent sections of Atlanta, was doing much better than Trump indicated. Journalists and other individuals were quick to point out that Lewis’ personal history was characterized by much action and little talk. He went on to accuse Lewis of being “All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Trump, never one to allow a criticism to go untweeted, reached for his always handy phone on the eve of the Martin Luther King holiday and tweeted that Lewis should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to … mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.” In the wake of the presidential election of 2016 and reports that Russian hackers had influenced the outcome in favor of Donald Trump, Congressman John Lewis was quoted as saying “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president” and that he would not be attending the inauguration. Georgia County To Replace Confederate Monument With John Lewis Statue
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