Hillary Clinton Condemns Trump's 'Sh*thole' Remarks: 'Ignorant' And 'Racist'
Source: Mediate
by Nicholas Page | 2:59 pm, January 12th, 2018
Hillary Clinton took to social media Friday to honor those who were impacted by the Haiti earthquake on the eighth anniversary, and also to condemn Thursdays remarks from Donald Trump.
Trumps widely reported comment came Thursday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration in which he used the term shithole to describe Haiti and African countries and expressed an interest in accepting immigrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had spoken with the day before.
In her tweet, Clinton said that Trumps statements were racist and ignorant:
Link to tweet
Its worth knowing that Trump has since *sort of* denied making the controversial comments. Democratic Senator from Illinois Dick Durbin said on Friday that the president did indeed use the term shithole during the course of the meeting on immigration reform which Durbin attended. The senator described Mr. Trump as saying things which were hate-filled, vile and racist.
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hibbing
(10,096 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)The RW can have their illegitimate shitgobbin and the majority of Americans, 66 million who voted for the popular winner, HRC, can have the true leader of the free world.
pandr32
(11,578 posts)...and allow her and her appointees to get started cleaning up the mess.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)The remark was about the PEOPLE coming from the "shithole countries". The disgusting reference to the countries was byplay compared to the inherent racism in the comparison of the PEOPLE.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Needs a heavy dose of troll spray. Fuck those assholes. Why does every Hillary post draw out the crazies?