ABC, NBC Use Death of John Lewis to Assail Republicans and Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 19, 2020
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Just as the left would abuse his life and legacy while he was alive, so too did the radical media with the passing of civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis (D-GA). During their Sunday morning newscasts, ABC and NBC blasted President Trump for not tweeting out his condolences fast enough, and accused Republicans of being the ones to who wanted to exploit Lewis’s legacy for their own political gain.

Following a segment about Lewis’s passing, Good Morning America co-host Dan Harris looked to chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz and whined that, “It took 14 hours after the announcement of John Lewis' death for the President to tweet out his condolences, and this was after all four living U.S. presidents had already weighed in.

“Was this perhaps a sign of the, at times, rocky relationship between the President and the Congressman,” he asked. Of course, this came after ABC had ignored the fact the President had ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to mourn his passing.

Despite that fact, Raddatz agreed and touted how Lewis had accused Trump of being an illegitimate president because of Russia.

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