Durbin fires back at Trump denial: 'He said those hateful things, and he said them repeatedly'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY BRANDON CARTER - 01/12/18 09:38 AM EST

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) fired back at President Trump for denying that he called Haiti and African countries “shithole countries,” saying Trump’s denials are “not true.”

“In the course of his comments, [Trump] said things that were hate-filled, vile and racist,” Durbin told reporters on Friday. “I cannot believe in this history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday.”

Durbin was one of several lawmakers in the meeting during which Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries,” according to The Washington Post.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump reportedly said.
Trump then said the U.S. should bring in more immigrants from countries like Norway.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/368686-durbin-fires-back-at-trump-denial-he-said-those-hateful-things-and-he-said

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Lindsey Graham needs to speak up as well.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Lindsey Graham needs to spend the rest of his worthless life making amends for

being the useless hypocritical piece of shit that he is. I won't hold my breath though.

[gopiscrap]

10. well said

[Paladin]

6. Don't hold your breath.

If trump doesn't have blackmail material on Graham, then Graham ought to stop acting as if that's the case.

[dalton99a]

7. Surgery is required to remove Graham from Trump's rectum

[Bengus81]

2. You mean Trump is LYING? Oh now that just can't be!

Gawd,another day of this ASS in charge of this Country.

[NewJeffCT]

12. the fact that it took him so long to actually deny saying it

and that Trump surrogates were defending him saying it last night on the news means that it is true.

[not fooled]

16. And

as Thom Hartmann just pointed out, that vile racist spew will further endear dump to the deplorables.

[riversedge]

3. Everyone in the room should have condemned the comments at the time.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Everyone in that room deserves grilling

Where do you stand? With the racist?

[DURHAM D]

8. This is your chance to do the right thing Lindsey.

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I won't hold my breath.

[vkkv]

9. Huckabee: If Trump made 's***hole' remark, Melania should feed him a bar of soap.. cuz

you know that Donald Trump IS A FIVE YEAR OLD!! Right?

[Enoki33]

11. There is another vital component of those vile and racist statements

that is often overlooked. Namely that it makes POC targets for hate crimes and justifies somehow treating them differently. In this case it is not only what trump does, it’s what he says. There are very real consequences.

[onecaliberal]

13. At least no one believes dumps denial.

[Enoki33]

15. The problem is the GOP base that believes it.

[onecaliberal]

20. Theyre almost too stupid to breathe, dont care what they believe.

[Enoki33]

21. Sound advice.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Where were you?

Where were the rest of the meeting attendees (fellow repugs) in denouncing tRUMP's language? Where? Obviously they condone this kind of language or explain it away as locker room talk.

Garbage...it's time to step forward and stop this idiotic sideshow in the WH...what an moronic idiotic...

[CrispyQ]

17. Lyin' Ryan did say it was unfortunate & unhelpful.

Cowardly POS just like the rest of them.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. agree w/ you, cowards all of them, thanks for heads up on Ryan's feeble response...

[Hekate]

19. Good for Durbin. KnR