Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Trump vs Lewis

www.washingtonpost.com/local/donald-trump-vs-john-lewis-one-is-a-legend-the-other-is-a-lightweight/2017/01/16/b077781a-dbf4-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.29a5673a6eca&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

"Trump called Lewis, who risked his life to defy segregation, who has been arrested 40 times for his unrelenting activism, who helped get voting rights for millions of Americans, who kept fighting even after his skull was fractured, “All talk, talk, talk — no action.”


"In 1973, Trump’s actions got him sued by the Department of Justice. He was managing his dad’s properties and wouldn’t rent apartments to African Americans. The Trumps eventually settled the lawsuit without any admission of wrongdoing.
That same year, John Lewis was running the Voter Education Project, which pushed to register minority voters across the country.
Trump owned the ’80s, right? His actions that decade?

In 1981, Trump bought a 14-story building facing New York City’s Central Park and began a campaign to drive out the rent-stabilized tenants so he could begin gutting and renovating the building. According to lawsuits, Trump cut heat and water to the remaining tenants."