Elizabeth Warren Won't Call Donald Trump 'Legitimate President'

Elizabeth Warren usually makes headlines with what she says. But this time, it's what she didn't say that is capturing national attention.

The outspoken Massachusetts Senator with the subtlety of a cannonball wouldn't call President-elect Donald Trump a legitimate president Monday, despite numerous proddings from reporters. Instead, she repeatedly endorsed John Lewis and said he "earned the right" to question Trump's legitimacy as president.

Warren spoke to the press at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Breakfast at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, where she was among other Massachusetts politicians in slamming Trump's recent shots at John Lewis.

Warren was directly asked if she shared Lewis's views that Trump wasn't "a legitimate president," in part because he believed Russian interference helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. She responded by praising what Lewis has done as a civil rights leader and said he has the right to question Trump's legitimacy. But she wouldn't go so far as saying whether Trump was a legitimate or illegitimate president in her eyes.

"Donald Trump hasn't put his life on the line for anyone except Donald Trump," she said, according to multiple media outlets present at the breakfast.

Trump has said Lewis, who represents Georgia's Fifth Congressional District and is a civil rights icon, should focus on fixing his district after Lewis questioned Trump's legitimacy in a Friday interview with NBC.

Lewis, who Trump also said was "All talk, talk, talk - no action or results," marched with King and was jailed and beaten more than once.

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