Hopes for immigration deal fade as lawmakers trade barbs and denials on Trump’s use of vulgarity

The Washington Compost ^ | January 14 at 6:07 PM | Mike DeBonis

[E. Pluribus Unum]

With the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in the balance, relations between key GOP and Democratic lawmakers turned poisonous Sunday over disagreement about President Trump’s use of a vulgarity to describe poor countries last week during an Oval Office meeting.

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) — who attended the meeting and previously has said they could not recall whether Trump had referred to “shithole countries” — on Sunday denied outright that Trump had ever said it. They suggested that a Democrat who publicly confirmed the remarks, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, could not be trusted.

“This is a gross misrepresentation, it’s not the first time Senator Durbin has done it, and it is not productive to solving the problem we’re having,” Perdue said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”

The accusations prompted Democrats to blast the GOP senators for impugning a colleague’s integrity, while also slamming Trump and his remarks as unabashedly racist.

The only administration official to speak publicly this weekend about the meeting was Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who attended the session. She said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday” that she did not “recall him using that exact phrase” but acknowledged Trump “did use and will continue to use strong language.”

If Congress doesn't reach agreement on crucial immigration issues and pass a spending bill, the costly consequence would be a government shutdown. (Joyce Koh/The Washington Post)

[Phil DiBasquette]

Nonsense

No one ever heard of one minority getting bumped
for another’s gibmedats-they all get a unmerited handout

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Go on YouTube and type in black vs Latino fights.

Illegal aliens are blacks' REPLACEMENT. Blacks are making too many demands from the DNC, so they are importing more subservient people.

Hispanics have already taken over large parts of L.A. that used to have blacks.

I am telling you blacks are getting screwed from open borders.

[familyop]

"You mean like they pushed for Hillary?"

Yes, exactly. It's part of the same push. They're still pushing for Hillary...or Okra. They'll do anything without exception to get feminist candidates into office. Anything! Their constituency is aided by homo-activists, bar associations, government union associations, international trade interests and many other special interests. They've provoked their various followings into a new kind of frenzy.

Normally, they don't do much for midterm elections, but it appears that they will this time.

[tumblindice]

Shut it down.
President Trump has masterfully set the stage to show the middle that it is Democrats’ obstructionism that prevented compromise, and he/we has/have the bully pulpit this time around to hector them and their GoPee open border allies.
March 5. (And February is a short month)

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I wish President Trump had secretly videotaped the meeting.

[familyop]

"And if it all comes down to who is the angriest, then the Deplorables win, hands down..."

We'll see if that translates into a new, more widespread effort to win more midterm elections and keep the majority in the House. The rabble of the left is more rabid now, because its leading propagandists have convinced it that the President can be impeached after Democrat wins in the House.

Holding the line is more important than it has been in the recent past. We don't want the legislation situation for the President to get any worse at all.

[doug from upland]

[princeofdarkness]

Maybe he did. Who knows with Trump.

[Pollster1]

If this kills the DACA deal, this fuss will be the first good thing to come from those manure-hole countries in history.

[dennisw]

Dick Turban also likes to kick cats and puppies.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder what makes these illegal alien sh*theads think this land is theirs. Maybe too many drugs or severe mental retardation.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“I wonder what makes these illegal alien sh*theads think this land is theirs.”

Well, that’s an easy one. Democrats and Republicans like Flake tell them that.

[eyedigress]

Shut it Down!

Release 1% of employees a day deemed non-essential.

[lovesdogs]

I think he knew this and planted the sh*thole bomb in someone’s ear to purposely blow up the deal when it was clear that wall funding was no go. Far better than a veto of something that had rino support.

[GailA]

dems lie

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/gop-senator-says-trump-didnt-use-vulgarity-for-haiti-and-african-nations-20180114

[Joe Boucher]

Round em ALL up and send them back to from whatever shithole they came from.
Ya don’t start out breaking the law.

[caww]

......”I wonder what makes these illegal alien sh*theads think this land is theirs”......

Much like the Palestinians think Israel is their land.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Good point.

[TChris]

Democrats literally swim in a pool of their hypocrisy every day, and it doesn't faze them.

I've never heard ANY politician use more vulgarity than a Democrat. Look up the recordings of John Kerry when he was running, or behind-the-scenes reports of the way Hillary is known to talk.

It's the utmost in pot-calling-kettle-black for Dems to throw fits about this alleged vulgarity.

Siddown and shaddap Dems, you have ZERO moral authority on the subject.