Atlanta Hits Back After Trump Tirade
Residents and local media deride president-elect’s assertion that city’s Fifth District is ‘falling apart’
ATLANTA — In his war of words with Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter , scolding the longtime representative but also taking swipes at his district, saying it was “falling apart” and “crime-infested.”
News of the dilapidated and crime-ridden state of the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia came as a surprise to many of the more than 700,000 people who live here, an area that covers much...