"For someone of his stature not just in the civil rights movement but in voting rights to make a comment that he did not consider Donald Trump to be a legitimate president I think is deeply disappointing. "We need folks like John Lewis, and others who I think have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognise the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected," said Priebus. CONCERNS NOT TRIVIALOutgoing White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Obama believed that Trump was the freely elected president. "It was John Lewis that attacked Donald Trump. Donald Trump has a right to respond to that, and he did.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2017 20:39 UTC