Former RNC Chairman and future White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has a message for President Obama: Tell your buddies to stop undermining President-elect Donald Trump’s legitimacy.
In a Sunday morning interview on ABC’s This Week, Priebus echoed Trump’s criticisms of leftist Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) after the civil rights icon leveraged his historical relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. to attack the next president’s legitimacy.
“I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president,” the vociferous Democrat told NBC News’ Chuck Todd in clip of an interview released Friday.
Lewis added that he has no plans on attending Trump’s inauguration on January 20th.
Naturally, Trump responded to Lewis, calling on the long-time congressman to tend to his own pastures and serve his own struggling constituency.
Priebus didn’t hold back either. Lewis’ doubts are “incredibly disappointing” and amount to “insanity,” the GOP operative said.
The next White House Chief of Staff also called on Obama to hold the line and keep the Democratic party’s sore losers in check.
“I think President Obama should step up,” he stated. “I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on the Republican side of the aisle: Look, we may have lost the election on the Democratic side, but it’s time to come together.”
Democrats, including ABC News host George Stephanopoulos, fired back at Priebus, arguing that it was hypocritical for Trump to ask for civility when he himself propagated “birtherism” rumors about President Obama.
(For the record, attacks on Obama’s citizenship and eligibility to serve as president were first started by volunteers associated with Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign).
Priebus, however, didn’t take the Bill Clinton staffer turned ABC News host’s bait:
“But look, George, that’s not the point,” Priebus replied, evading Stephanopoulos’ activist line of questioning. “The point is not where Barack Obama was born. The point is that we’ve got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect Trump, who won in an electoral landslide. That’s the issue. That’s where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power and we have been working with President Obama hand in glove. And I think that they, including the president, should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.”
Source: The Daily Wire
