[Alberta's Child]

There's a pro-Trump radio host in NYC who had the most realistic take on this:

1. Trump did use the term "sh!t-hole" in his meeting (this guy said he assumes Trump said this because he's known Trump for years and it's one of his favorite slang terms in casual conversations, LOL).

2. Durbin fabricated the actual quote to make it sound like Trump was using the term differently than it was originally used.

[gibsonguy]

Sounds about right. The Rats and the Rino’s think Trump is over a barrel now because of this so now they will go for a “clean bill of love” for DACA. If this was Bush they would be right but this ain’t Bush.

[x]

That sounds reasonable. It's possible that the word came up in conversation, but whether it was tied to any specific country or countries is harder to say.

Politicians and deal-makers are very profane people, but they have to be sure that the people they use them with won't rat them out.

[dennisw]

Mark Simone

[Tammy8]

Possible...but during the campaign Trump referred to some country or countries as he!!hole/s so it could be that is what he actually said too.

I really don’t care what he said, I am far more troubled by a Congressman that would run to the media about anything said in a private meeting. Many places are $h!th*les and he!!h*les here and other countries, it is a fact.

We don’t need to fill our country with people from those countries. That is also a fact. We may or may not decide to let in a limited number for humanitarian reasons from time to time but our immigration policy- like all of our policies needs to put America and Americans first. We must always look at the situation to see if it benefits us and/or our people. Or even for humanitarian reasons we need to be sure it is not going to harm this country or our people.