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Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trumps first of three campaign managers, suggested this week on a Virginia radio show that the thought of a Republican politician delegitimizing Barack Obamas presidency was insane.

The Democrats are trying to say he is not a legitimate candidate, Lewandowski said. Can you imagine just for a second if a Republican congressman would havegone out and say this about Barack Obama and continued that narrative? It would be an uproar in the mainstream media.

Lewandowskis former boss, of course, gavea prominent voiceto the birther movement, popularizing the conspiracy theory that posited Obama was born in Kenya and therefore was not legally eligible to be president.

In September, after Lewandowski was replaced as campaign manager for attacking a reporter, Trump held a press conference in his Washington, D.C. hotel to publicly admit that Obama was indeed born in the United States, despite his previous claims that suggested otherwise.

After all those years of doubting Obamas birth certificate, Trump is ironically dealing with his own legitimacy concerns. Following reports from the U.S. intelligence community which indicated that Russia hacked high-ranking Democrats to deliberately tilt the election in Trumps favor, 66 congressmen have announced that they will not be attending his inauguration.

Republicans, especially those closest to Trump, and even Trump himself, have expressed shock and outrage that elected officials would choose to boycott the presidents swearing-in ceremony.AlthoughDemocrats symbolic gesture appears to have successfully riled up Republicans, Trump will still be taking over the Oval Office and his policy platform will come with him.

This is a fundamental and wholesale change coming to Washington and it is going to be unlike anything this town has seen in a lifetime, Lewandowski said on the John Fredericksshow. He understands the serious nature of what he is about to undertake. And he understands the world is watching.

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'A New Era of the Republican Party': Voices From Trump's Inauguration New York Times On Friday, thousands of Americans will stand before the U.S. Capitol to watch President-elect Donald J. Trump be sworn into office. The New York Times asked readers who are planning to attend the inaugural festivities to tell us about why they're ...

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RICHMOND A Virginia lawmaker blasted fellow Republicans as cowards Thursday for rejecting his bill to regulate the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in schools, highway rest stops and other government-owned buildings.

You campaign one way and come down here and kill things silently, Del. Robert G. Marshall (Prince William) fumed at members of a GOP-controlled House subcommittee after they used an unrecorded voice vote to dispatch with his bill. He said their actions were disgusting.

Marshall had proposed legislation similar to what passed with great controversy in North Carolina last year. His bill would have required people to use the restroom that corresponds with the gender on their original birth certificates.

[Virginia lawmaker proposes a bathroom bill to restrict public bathroom use by transgender people]

He softened the measure somewhat as the House General Laws subcommittee took it up in an afternoon hearing, proposing an amendment to strike the word original from the legislation. The amendment would have allowed those who undergo sex-reassignment therapy or surgery and who have their birth certificates changed to reflect that to use the bathroom associated with their gender identity.

If someone goes through the process of changing their sex I dont think its very smart because such people have very high rates of self-harm. Thats documented, not from me, he said. But if they go through that, fine. Let them use that bathroom.

Marshall said the purpose of the bill was to protect women and girls from predatory men who might pretend to be transgender to gain access to areas where women are undressed.

Dubbing his bill the Physical Privacy Act, Marshall bristled at its more common description as the bathroom bill. He said his main concern was not bathrooms, where stalls provide a measure of privacy, but public locker rooms, where women could be forced to undress and shower in full view of men who claim to be transgender.

A handful of conservative and liberal activists testified for and against the measure. Then, with no discussion among the subcommittees five Republicans and two Democrats, Del. Barry D. Knight (R-Virginia Beach) moved to lay the bill on the table. The action kills the bill unless the subcommittee reverses itself within a weeks time, Marshall said.

One member, Del. Thomas C. Wright Jr. (R-Lunenburg), raised a finger in a manner that seemed to indicate he opposed the motion. The vote tally was unrecorded, as is typical for voice votes.

Subcommittee members continued with their meeting after the vote and were not immediately available for comment.

They dont even want to defend their oath, Marshall said later. Thats disgusting.

Marshall had never expected the bill would become law, at least not under Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who had vowed to veto it if it got to his desk. But he hoped to pressure Republican leaders to let it get to the floor of the House.

One of the most vocal conservatives in the General Assembly, Marshall has often accused Republican leaders of killing his social-issue bills to avoid controversy.

An earlier version of this article erroneously reported that Marshall used the word disgusting to describe the legislators, rather than their actions. The story has been corrected and updated.

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This was the core Donald Trump, Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw said in his assessment of Trumps Inaugural address.

It was the core Donald Trump, according to Brokaw in that it was a speech tailored to his constituents in Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia, among others, who may have lost their jobs.

And with the core Donald Trump comes the attacks on the political establishment. Including, Brokaw noted, members of Trumps own party.

His republican majority that he has in the House and the Senate, he just turned around and kinid of head-slapped them. Because he said These politicians in Washington, they just want to take, and they dont want to give you anything. That seemed to me a very hard door to open.

Brokaw recalled a moment during the campaign when Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill to meet with republican leadership.

The Senate leadership said he was pretty good at the beginning, and then when they said to him, Wed like to talk about some issues that we have for you, he said, No, no. Im not here about that. I put on a show. Thats why people this is a quote from somebody who was in the room, a senior member of the republican Senate leadership. I put on a show. You guys dont get me. So I see what he said today was put on a show for his core group who did get him there. But how you put the country back together again and get everybody moving the same way

Brokaw let his thought hang in the air before tossing to colleague Hugh Hewitt. Watch above, via NBC.

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