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David Perdue: Trump did not make 'shithole countries' comment
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/14/2018 | Sean Higgins

Posted on 01/14/2018 7:58:09 AM PST by grayboots

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To: grayboots

It’s almost too late for a correction. It does not really matter now.
If he didn’t say this, then what exactly DID he say?
Aside from that, the quote and it’s meaning have already been absorbed by the general public. Some are cautiously agreeing with this perspective. ‘Why are WE taking in all these uneducated, unskilled, uncivilized people from poorly managed countries?”

Most of us find it easy to believe that the president would say something like this. So what if it was not verbatim?

The Genie (the FORBIDDEN topic of 3rd countries) has already been let out of the bottle, and is being openly talked about. The president will be alright. The GOP will survive.
The public discourse will benefit from this open discussion that no other modern president wished to bring up.
Jeb! never,ever, EVER would allow himself to think, let alone say this.


21 posted on 01/14/2018 8:15:27 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Zenjitsuman

I like Little Dick Durban


22 posted on 01/14/2018 8:15:32 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: grayboots

“A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” ~ Joseph Goebbels


23 posted on 01/14/2018 8:16:25 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: Zenjitsuman

He has already used Lying (Ted Cruz).


24 posted on 01/14/2018 8:18:56 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Zenjitsuman

Lying Tricky Dick Durbin!


25 posted on 01/14/2018 8:19:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: Zenjitsuman

If I were Trump I would never have a meeting Durbin again. But if forced to meet with him I’d record the entire meeting. And I’d have my personal attorney with me.


26 posted on 01/14/2018 8:21:34 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Zenjitsuman

Leaky dick.
Going to the press and telling them what was (alledgedly) said in private .


27 posted on 01/14/2018 8:21:43 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

Haiti ... Dominican Republic ... same island ... different results. I doubt many people want to leave DR ... and I doubt that anyone could call DR any-hole. Perhaps the focus should be on self-improvement rather than exodus to willing-countries.

It is amazing the difference between these two countries with a common border.

Like Mexico compared to the USA.


28 posted on 01/14/2018 8:21:50 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think he said sh*tty, without the hole.


29 posted on 01/14/2018 8:25:39 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: RoosterRedux

> Well, what did he say—specifically. <

Great question. The articles says that Durbin “had a habit of twisting comments”. So just what were those comments?

I find this whole thing very odd.


30 posted on 01/14/2018 8:25:59 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: grayboots
If Trump lost supporters because the use of this one word, then they never were real supporters or they had extremely fragile personalities.

I don't expect to agree 100% with politicians I support. There are times I have disagreed with Trump. But what is the alternative? Democrats have said far worse things, and nothing has been done.

Many people, including politicians, probably do think this term applies to certain countries but don't dare to express it.

31 posted on 01/14/2018 8:27:33 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

20 point IQ discrepancy between both sides of the island, as well. Low 60s to DR’s low 80s. Both abysmally low but one is cripplingly low.


32 posted on 01/14/2018 8:28:06 AM PST by riri
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To: New Jersey Realist; Zenjitsuman

Turban Durbin


33 posted on 01/14/2018 8:29:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: upchuck
IMHO, this is a setup for the release of a video or audio that will prove, once and for all, President Trump did not use the word Sh!thole.

I reckon President Trump is just sitting back and will pick a time that will provide maximum damage to the RATS and the RINOS.

Trump mentioned recording in a tweet this morning: "Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters..."

It would make perfect sense that the DACA meeting would have been recorded. Trump has announced that this Wednesday, the "Fake News Awards" event will take place. That would be a perfect time to release the recording if it does, in fact, exist.

34 posted on 01/14/2018 8:33:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: grayboots

As this “set” fire rages over the news cycles, I wonder what President Trump is doing behind the noise. :-) Best the opposition watches the OTHER hand, not the obvious one.


35 posted on 01/14/2018 8:33:39 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: independentmind

> I think Trump probably used the word. ... My guess, though, is that Trump did not use it in the context as it has been described. <

Those are probably good assumptions. I find it difficult to believe that Durbin made Trump’s comment up out of thin air.

But at the same time I find it difficult to believe that Perdue would out-and-out lie. So yeah, I think you’ve nailed it here.

And as an aside, if Trump did use that word (even in a correct context), then he needs to be more careful. Democrats can get away with almost anything. But not Republicans.


36 posted on 01/14/2018 8:34:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: independentmind

That’s my theory as well. I suspect he was responding to the issue of whether to legalize refugees from these countries and said something like, “yes I know they’d have to go back to these shithole countries, but that can’t be our priority concern.” In other words as usual in these questions he was arguing not for discriminating against people from these countries but instead against granting them a preference. But to the left that’s racist.


37 posted on 01/14/2018 8:35:28 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: grayboots

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain


38 posted on 01/14/2018 8:36:16 AM PST by Lazamataz (It is known.)
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>> was a “gross misrepresentation.”

Yeah, Trump was prolly referring to Durbin.


39 posted on 01/14/2018 8:37:06 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: grayboots
This is a classic example of why congress can never get their sh*t (pun intended) together and get anything done for the American people.

Their focus is not on "the" problems they're supposed to be dealing with.

Instead, they focus on some inconsequential comment by the president in a closed meeting.

The proof he said it: Dick Turd Man, a chronic liar and exaggerator. Oh, and did I mention he was a dirty democRAT?

To me, it makes all the crybaby whiners look bad, not Trump.

Boy, were the pearl-clutchers out in full force on the Sunday morning cable TV shows. Pretty much the world is coming to an end because of some derisive term allegedly about made about the "sh*tholes of the world.

Horrors!

40 posted on 01/14/2018 8:37:40 AM PST by HotHunt
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