Pat Boone makes some very good points in regards to John Lewis and his recent remarks about Donald Trump not being a “legitimate president.”
An article entitled The United States has been meddling in other countries’ elections for a century shows we have no right to accuse Russia or anyone else of trying to influence elections to their benefit. Yet John Lewis among others have made a very big deal out of Hillary Clinton’s loss of the 2016 Presidential Election and Russia swaying the election toward Donald Trump. This sounds a lot like the kettle calling the pot black….
Here are a couple of excerpts from Pat Boone’s article for WND News:
“And, on the subject of “hacking into” or influencing elections: What does John Lewis think about the president, our current president, spending over $300,000 of our taxpayer dollars to send his own social media experts to Israel to make their political expertise on the Internet available to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s opponent in the Israeli election! At his behest, these experts hired buses to transport Arabs to the polls to vote against Netanyahu – though the prime minister won anyway. What gives an American president the right to intervene so directly and overtly in another sovereign nation’s election? Is it wrong for Russia but acceptable for our president to do it?
Is such meddling a right – or a high crime? And is it legitimate?
Further, is it legitimate for a president to personally create 33 new regulatory agencies by executive order – without so much as a nod to Congress? And to personally appoint 33 “czars” to head those agencies, reporting only to him and not the legislature? Is it “legitimate” for a president and his then attorney general, who had both sworn to uphold our laws, to openly and publicly state they would not enforce immigration laws they personally objected to?
What makes for “legitimacy,” Mr. Lewis? Words and expressed intentions before assuming the presidency, or actual deeds and misdeeds and betraying the promise to “uphold the Constitution” during eight years as president?
Pat closes his article with this:
I earnestly hope you’ll pray and think carefully before you continue to foment rebellion and rejection of the duly elected incoming leader of the United States – and ask yourself honestly which of the two men, the current president or the incoming one, should be thought of as “illegitimate”?
As one of the villagers in Fiddler on the Roof said – “Well Put!”
“Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; When they have something to bite with their teeth, They cry, “Peace,” But against him who puts nothing in their mouths They declare holy war.” Micah 3:5