Renacci defends, Kasich condemns Trumps s-hole remark

[brooklynite]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

WASHINGTON — As politicians from both parties weighed in on reports that President Donald Trump referred to countries such as Haiti and El Salvador as “shithole” countries, two key Ohio Republicans responded in wildly different ways.

Ohio Rep. Jim Renacci, who dropped out of the GOP gubernatorial primary Thursday in order to run for the U.S. Senate, appeared on Fox & Friends, where he defended the man he desperately needs for his fledgling U.S. Senate campaign.

“I’ve said all along the president many times says what people are thinking,” Renacci told Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade.

It’s a line the Wadsworth Republican has used repeatedly when asked about Trump, but it’s the first time Renacci has applied it to a statement widely condemned as overtly racist.

Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180112/renacci-defends-kasich-condemns-trumps-s-hole-remark

[niyad]

1. some people think about raping and murdering, too. doesn't mean that orange thug

needs to repeat them.

[Ohiogal]

2. Renacci is a slimeball party hack

He'd step on his own mother to lick Trump's ass.