Schumer rips GOP senator for questioning Durbin's account of Trump meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/14/18 01:13 PM EST

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ripped GOP Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) for suggesting that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) fabricated a quote from President Trump reportedly referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and several African countries as "shithole countries."

In a statement on Schumer's Twitter, the New York Democrat attacked Cotton's comments on CBS' "Face The Nation," which Schumer called "disgraceful."

"I certainly didn’t hear what Sen. Durbin has said repeatedly. Sen. Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings, though, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that,” Cotton said.

Link to tweet

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/368972-schumer-rips-gop-senator-for-questioning-durbins-account-of-trump-meeting

[dalton99a]

1. Cotton has a long documented history of lies and distortions

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Civil unrest is what Cotton is promoting

[MBS]

29. You are exactly right.

I think that Cotton is one of the slimiest and most destructive members of the Senate.

[ChiTownDenny]

3. The party of "you lie!" is now

calling another prominent Democrat a liar.

[JDC]

4. He needs to call him out from the floor also.

If this is the o my statement or action, it is too soft and will barely get a notice.

[C_U_L8R]

5. The State of the Union could be a shitshow

Or at least a food fight. Republicans have gone off the deplorable deep end.

[PJMcK]

11. Democrats should boycott the SOTU en masse

Wouldn't that send a message to America?

There is nothing honorable, patriotic or respectful in today's GOP and Trump's speech will be bullshit lies and ego-tripping anyway.

The government, like our nation, is divided. Show the American public the truth.

[CreekDog]

36. while it would be justified, the Republicans would bring in adoring fans to replace them

so the whole chamber would be applauding everything.

high profile boycotts though can get media coverage and still leave a Democratic presence to either boo or stay seated when Trump is making one of his grandiose statements.

[47of74]

6. Cotton is a smarmy little fuck.

That's the nicest thing I can say about him too.

[Scarsdale]

26. Tehran Tom?

When President Obama was working out a deal with Tehran this little traitor sent a letter signed by numerous gop members, undermining the President with Tehran. He has done more than enough damage. He plans to run for the WH, too.

[MBS]

30. Thanks for the reminder.

I'd known that there was something specific in his past that had thrown me into a special rage- and his attempt to sabotage the Iran deal was it.

Smarmy, egotistical slimeball.
No way should he be allowed into the White House.

[riversedge]

34. I recall that horrible letter sent by Cotton. He is disgraceful.

[Cha]

28. Yeah, toadyhead smarmy mcfuck

Get him to say that under oath.

[jaysunb]

7. Hey ! Remember when a lot of folks around here was so mad at Blanche Lincoln ? n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Traitor Tom replaced Senator Mark Pryor.

[SharonClark]

23. Your point is?

[trueblue2007]

8. CENSURE GOP Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) for saying Dick Durbin mispreresented TRUMP'S racist/hate stateme

[trueblue2007]

9. CENSURE THEM ALL...... ANY GOPig who says Dems are lying. I wish Durbin was recording the session.

[PJMcK]

12. Do you know how a Senatorial censure works?

From Wikipedia:

The U.S. Senate has developed procedures for taking disciplinary action against senators through such measures as formal censure or actual expulsion from the Senate. The Senate has two basic forms of punishment available to it: expulsion, which requires a two-thirds vote; or censure, which requires a majority vote. Censure is a formal statement of disapproval. While censure (sometimes referred to as condemnation or denouncement) is less severe than expulsion in that it does not remove a senator from office, it is nevertheless a formal statement of disapproval that can have a powerful psychological effect on a member and on that member's relationships in the Senate.

In the history of the Senate, 10 U.S. Senators have been censured, the most famous being Joseph McCarthy. Their transgressions have ranged from breach of confidentiality to fighting in the Senate chamber and more generally for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.

So one needs a majority vote to censure a Senator. How would that work in McConnell's Senate?

[Weed Man]

17. Armed with videos to kill their careers

and ensure that the FBI and the DoJ will be seizing their ill-gotten assets. It must be repatriated to the U.S. taxpayers.

Ensure that they resign from their seats completely, not from some two-bit committee that no-one cares about (at present)

[PJMcK]

21. To be clear, I was writing about the procedure

As a life-long Democrat, I don't need to discuss the culpability of the Republicans. Their behavior speaks for itself.

Simply, with a Republican majority in the Senate, any censure will not pass. Equally important, with McConnell at the helm, there wouldn't even be a vote on any censure resolution.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Oh, I'm glad I'm not in the brain of Cotton. "Shithole" there is soon forgotten.

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Lie away, lie away, lie away, pixie man.

[dhill926]

31. haha....well done....

[marble falls]

14. This is the best Arkansas can do??

[UpInArms]

16. The state that brought us Fuckabeast?

Or the smarmy Duggar family?

smh

[withoutapaddle]

37. we can do better than this!

Our natural resources are being polluted and depleted.
Poverty is rampant, along with unemployment and addiction.
Racism and hate are accepted.


We HAVE to do better than this!!!!

[marble falls]

38. I know you can. Two words prove it: Bill Clinton.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Cotton said he did not remember Trump using that word.

Cotton said he did not remember Trump using that word.

So Cotton has no knowledge of it not really being said.

[progree]

18. Senators Lindsay(R), Scott(R), Flake(R) ---

"Following comments by the President, I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The President and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I've always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals," Graham said in a statement on Friday.

Graham neither confirmed nor denied the controversial remarks attributed to Trump, but the GOP senator said he appreciated statements from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

"I appreciate Senator Durbin's statements and have enjoyed working with him and many others on this important issue," Graham said in his statement.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/368772-graham-i-said-my-piece-to-trump-directly

Graham also reportedly confirmed hearing Trump's racially charged remark in a conversation with fellow South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott.

Reached Friday at a Samsung appliance plant opening in Newberry, Scott said that Graham told him the comments, as reported in the media, were “basically accurate.”

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/lindsey-graham-i-said-my-piece-to-trump-but-senator/article_e99c2fba-f7a9-11e7-a381-d7950e17b81f.html

Sen. Jeff Flake, a fierce Republican critic of the President, was not at the meeting but tweeted that he had heard directly from those who were in attendance.

"The words used by the President, as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance, were not 'tough,' " he said, taking issue with the President's tweet. "They were abhorrent and repulsive."

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/politics/senators-trump-comment-tom-cotton/index.html

[No Vested Interest]

19. Tom Cotton's name has been bandied about as a possible head of CIA.

Is this man Cotton the type of person who should occupy that office?

[DFW]

24. This CIA:

The Confederate Indecency Authority

[DoctorJoJo]

20. Cotton Has Delusions of Granduer, ....

... but he is just a low life grandstander!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. The first WH response and for a long time did not deny the "shithole countries" statement.

Then they changed their tune after the furor got too strong and after they found a couple of toady RepubliCON Senators.

[steve2470]

25. If I was Durbin, I'd be tempted to pop Cotton in the nose next time they crossed paths

I'm sure Durbin will behave himself but probably mutter something like "fuck you asshole" in his direction.

[nolabels]

35. When I was six years old I got a bloody nose that seemed it wouldn't stop

At the time, popping some cotton in the nose might have helped

[videohead5]

27. Well if Trump did not say it

Why did it take Cotton 3 days or so to say it?...he's a big liar.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

32. It's like an episode of "Columbo," where the guilty person is trying to explain away

each new piece of evidence that Columbo uncovers.

"Why is the newspaper wet, when it hasn't rained here in the last three weeks? I, uh, well, ... uh, the sprinkler system must have been running last night."

"We don't have a sprinkler system?" Uh ... it was the neighbor's sprinkler system. Sometimes the paper boy throws the paper in the wrong yard."

[riversedge]

33. whow. Cotton just couldn't say he not heard the comments, but was mean to a

sitting Senator as well. Cotton is sewer material

[itcfish]

39. Isn't Cotton

the guy who committed treason by writing to Iran's leaders to not accept Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal?

[BigDemVoter]

40. Word on the street in Arkansas is that Mr. Cotton has a boyfriend to whom he is NOT married.

He actually has a wife. As a gay man, I'm certainly NOT complaining about Mr. Cotton's allegedly gay ties, but it IS interesting that somebody so sanctimonious would do this. . . .

Of course I'm not surprised in the least, and I would bet $$ that it's true.