Posted on 01/12/2018 8:53:52 AM PST by Pinkbell
We have an update on the previous thread, which I'll link below. Trump denied saying "sh*thole" in the meeting, Dick Durbin came out and said Trump said it:
“In the course of his comments, [President Trump] said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist,” Sen. Dick Durbin says of “sh*thole countries” comments. “He said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly.” http://cbsn.ws/2mngMu4
Of course, he then dramatized it to the extreme:
"The most disheartening thing to me is, my belief that, that was the first time words that hateful have been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House," Sen. Dick Durbin says http://cbsn.ws/2mngMu4
However, he said that Lindsey Graham was in the meeting and stood up to Trump and that other Republicans told him they didn't like Trump's words:
NEW: "Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina spoke up and made a direct comment on what the president said. I was very proud of him. It took courage for what he did," Sen. Dick Durbin says, firing back at Pres. Trump's denial of "sh*thole countries" comment
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/951836710199091201
Jake Tapper went and then talked to Flake who never misses an opportunity to trash Trump but apparently who wasn't in the meeting:
Sen. @JeffFlake to me just now:
"The words used by the president -- as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance -- were not 'tough,' they were abhorrent and repulsive. There is no good explanation."
Flake tells me before the @washingtonpost broke the story, he was told of the comments by @SenatorDurbin and a GOP Senator who attended the Oval Office meeting . 2/
Flake said he was told what CNN reported: that the president referred to African countries as "shithole countries," and of Haitians asked “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out” —- meaning take them out of the deal.
See this thread:
So how and why is President Trump denying the remarks that he reportedly said?
I have some clarifying reporting from a source familiar the meeting. I want to start by saying that this does not make what he said any more acceptable, but it might shed some light on it all. 1/
The president did not refer to Haiti as a “shithole” country according to the source familiar with the meeting… though he DID say it about countries in Africa...
What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president. 2/
First, when talking about “temporary protected status” countries as part of the immigration deal it was mentioned that Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians have that status. 3/
“Haitians?” the president said. “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out” —- meaning take them out of the deal. 4/
Then in a separate part of the conversation when they were referencing the diversity visa lottery, President Trump referred to people coming from Africa as coming from “shithole countries.”
Again, I’m not saying this is better. Just that this is what happened, per my source. 5/
6/ So that might explain the kinda-pushback from POTUS today. -fin-
That was Jake Tapper. The White House didn't deny the statements last night, and it doesn't help that meeting was full of some Republicans who are conservative and like Trump (Graham likes Trump despite their disagreements) and who haven't come to his defense. Now would be the time for them to come forward.
Look, I don't like the term and have said that, but if he said it, he said it. It's best just to admit to it because denying it and getting rebuffed just gives you double the problem. The best thing to do is issue a statement immediately via Twitter or the White House clarifying his comments. It's not good to give the media a full night to call you racist without rebuttal.
The key to such a meeting is to assume the Democrats/RINOs will leak the whole thing to the press. Watch everything you say and possibly have someone video the meeting or record it so there is no deniability.
Oh I hope they do...great graphic ;)
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Jeff is definitely a flake.
Flake himself is the living definition of s**thole.
Though that’s probably a compliment to him...regardless, he’s not credible...about anything.
As reliable as Hillary backing up Bill
He wasn’t in the meeting and thus doesn’t know anything.
Not that it matters trump used the correct term to discribed some of these countries.
Flake is just repeating the same Democrat lie, flake wasn’t even there. So nothing new from that McCain jurnor
If anyone knows about “shitholes” it is Flake and Durbin. After all, when they look in the mirror in the morning, they see two of them and they are not named Haiti.
Don’t forget the unnamed sources to ran to the press who heard or from someone, who heard it fro someone who was at the meeting but never heard it themselves.
"I've Played Some S#######s Before" - Martin Mull
Everybody heard it from someone else, except Durbin, who heard it from himself.
LOL!
Trump said it once. Once!
Now everyone else dances with glee repeating what he said ad nauseum.
According to the great Pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffress, President Trump was “Right on target.”
Full quote from Dallas Morning Fake News:
>>”Apart from the vocabulary attributed to him, President Trump is right on target in his sentiment,” Jeffress told the Christian Broadcasting Network.<<
In many of these backward societies it is acceptable to defecate and urinate in the street. It seems to me that ‘shithole countries’ describes it quite well.
In many of these backward societies it is acceptable to defecate and urinate in the street. It seems to me that ‘shithole countries’ describes it quite well.
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And look how these losers are changing our cities.
This Map Shows San Francisco Is Covered in Human Poop
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/human-wasteland-map-plots-all-of-san-franciscos-poop
Same as in many countries, like Switzerland— who will not accept ANY Americans to full citizenship, even skilled ones. Ask someone from Nestle, for example.
He could have said crap hole. Same concept and Durbin lied. Durbin probably lied any way. Despicable.
Woodrow Wilson and JBJ used the N word in the Oval Office, sthu, Turban.
I’m pretty sure Truman did. I would bet Carter did, too. That he’d get 90% of the Black vote in 1976 despite running a race-baiting campaign for Governor 6 years earlier truly takes the cake.
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