Posted on 01/14/2018 5:36:54 PM PST by Innovative
The senator, David Perdue of Georgia, said Mr. Trump did not use that word, and he accused another participant in the White House meeting, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, of a gross misrepresentation of what the president had said at the session.
He and another Republican senator at the meeting, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, had previously said they did not recall the president saying these comments specifically. But by Sunday, their recollections appeared to have sharpened, and Mr. Cotton joined Mr. Perdue in disputing Mr. Durbins account.
But in Congress, the battle took on an increasingly personal dimension as Mr. Perdue and Mr. Cotton essentially accused Mr. Durbin of lying about the presidents comments, even after the vulgar remarks were widely reported and the White House did not immediately dispute that the president had made them.
Mr. Cotton said Mr. Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings, an assertion that Mr. Perdue made in his own interview Sunday morning on ABCs This Week.
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I figure Trump must know full well any comments he makes are going to be reported, so, if he said it (which I don’t know), he had a plan in mind. Looks to be working. Bravo, Trump!
I can believe they would lie too. Been going on for years now.
If you beat the Mitt out of dick-lickin durbin - he’d be invisible...
Dickie Durbin is “The S##t-hole heard ‘round the world!”
dems lied as usual
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