(Update) Jeff Flake Backs Up Durbin - Says Trump Did Say Sh*thole

Jake Tapper ^ | January 12, 2018

[bitt]

Well, do you want to start talking about Haiti??

[Leep]

The shitheads are exposing themselves again.

[Jonny7797]

All these liberal senators are butthurt because Trump rejected them and their amnesty plan.

[headstamp 2]

Perhaps Trump should have said. “Thanks to the corruption of the Clinton Foundation, Haiti really is a sh**hole”.

LOL

[plain talk]

"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

[Fedora]

So Flake wasn’t in the meeting.

[Gasshog]

Haiti is a disease ridden trash dump

But dont tell anyone cuz Blacks live there.

[2harddrive]

SO WHAT if Trump said that? It is TRUE. Trump ALSO says that 2+2=4.

[SaxxonWoods]

Same old story, nothing gets you in more trouble than the truth, IF he said it.

Trumps saying that he should record from now on to stop the BS.

[Maverick68]

I HOPE he called these countries s&&holes because they ARE.

[SoFloFreeper]

“The words used by the president — as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance”

“related to me...by those in attendance...” IOW, he wasn’t there.

[Skooz]

Who freaking cares?

[theoilpainter]

Flake wasn’t there but knows what was said. He is aptly named.

[RhoTheta]

Anyone who wants to invoke the ideal of charity being a virtue needs to understand that charity begins at home, and start helping the people who already legally live in their country.

It isn't "Charity" if it is done by confiscatory taxation. It is theft.

[ought-six]

So what if he used the term “shithole countries” to describe shithole countries!

[SoFloFreeper]

....there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president....

Which is usually what happens. The urgency to bash Trump takes precedence over careful and accurate description of events.

[Cvengr]

Trump has a good point. Why are we taking in people from these S***hole countries which haven’t taken care of their own and who don’t seek to adhere to American laws?

[wardamneagle]

Besides a cigar used for........

[bk1000]

So Flake is reporting what someone told him the President said. Where are any first hand accounts? What did Trump say that was “racist”?

[Maverick68]

Agreed.