Don Lemon is certainly not wrong here.Cold Open: "The President of the United States is Racist." http://pic.twitter.com/gzeLO2qCIi— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 12, 2018
Courtesy of WaPo:
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers.
Trump then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday. The president, according to a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt that they help the United States economically.
In addition, the president singled out Haiti, telling lawmakers that immigrants from that country must be left out of any deal, these people said.
“Why do we need more Haitians?” Trump said, according to people familiar with the meeting. “Take them out.”
These remarks received universal condemnation from just about everybody, including Fox News.
But rather than apologize Trump did what Trump does best.
He denied he ever said it.
The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
Yep, once again Trump claims that everybody else is lying, and only HE is the source of the actual truth.Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
Jim Comey lied, the Hollywood Access tape lied, author Michael Wolff lied, the Democrats lied, and all of those women making accusations of improper sexual contact are a bunch of damn liars.
Problem in this case of course is that Trump came to prominence by promoting the racist lie that Barack Obama was not born in America.
So I doubt there are many people willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this.
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