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"I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton," he said. "I don't plan to attend the inauguration… You cannot be at home with something that you feel is wrong."
Lewis also said he felt there was a "conspiracy" headed by Russia to bring Trump to power.
There's a lot Rep. Jared Huffman would rather do than go to Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday. So he's going to stay home.
The attack, coming just days before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, seem to have energized a number of Lewis' fellow Democratic lawmakers, as they joined his boycott of the inauguration after Trump's tweet storm.
Below are the Democratic lawmakers who do not plan on attending.
Arizona
Rep. Raul Grijalva
A small but growing group of congressmen and women have announced they will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, breaking with generations of past precedent.
Rep. Ted Lieu, who represents California's 33rd District in Los Angeles County, announced Saturday that he will not be attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration following tweets Trump made about civil rights leader and Rep. John Lewis.
The number of lawmakers planning to skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump grew Saturday after he criticized civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis.
As many as a dozen House members had already said they wouldn't attend the swearing-in Friday, but others joined them in a show of support for Lewis.
Several House Democrats have declared that they plan to boycott Donald Trump's inauguration Friday, with the number increasing Saturday in the wake of the president-elect's criticism of
South Bay Rep. Ted Lieu said Saturday he will join a contingent of Democrats to boycott this week's presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.
Congressman Ted W. Lieu announced Saturday that he was boycotting Donald Trump's Inauguration.
He issued the following statement on his decision not to attend.
A new conventional wisdom is emerging among Very Serious People in Washington, D.C. It essentially holds that while Russia intervened on Donald Trump's behalf in America's election, questioning Trump's legitimacy only plays into Russian hands. Marco Rubio articulated the new line in his questioning of Mike Pompeo, Trump's choice for CIA chief, on Thursday.