In the same meeting during which President Donald Trump referred to African countries as “shithole countries,” he also told congressional lawmakers that he did not care about any demands from the Congressional Black Caucus, the Washington Post reported Monday evening.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who was at the Thursday meeting to promote a bipartisan plan to restore the protections from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, told the President at one point that the Congressional Black Caucus would be more likely to back a deal that gave immigrants from certain countries protected status, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the meeting. Trump told Durbin he was not interested in catering to the CBC, per the Post.
Trump’s combative and racially charged comments in last week’s meetings have endangered a deal on DACA. The President sided with immigration hardliners in his administration and in Congress, alienating the lawmakers working on a bipartisan proposal. In the wake of reports about his comments, Trump has attacked Democrats and specifically gone after Durbin, who confirmed that Trump said “shithole countries” during the meeting.
Read the Washington Post’s full report on the meeting here.
“I’m the least racist person you ever interviewed…”
Yup. And I’m the Queen of Sheba.
Make him pay. Clean DACA, no wall, or the government closes until further notice.
Perdue and Cotton would never take lie detector tests.
Durbin would be glad to.
Maybe the media should challenge them on this, let’s have a three-man reality TV lie detector show! Think of the ratings…
Seriously, though, the Perdue/Cotton lies are astounding, they decided obfuscation just wasn’t deceptive enough, they went all-in on a Trumpian lie.
We can quit counting Trump’s lies now.
It is all one BIG, running lie, there’s no break between them.
This news is awful, awful. I’ve been thinking for a long while that Trump is like Godzilla, and the Republicans are cheering him on as he stomps on and destroys what they want stomped on and destroyed—and that they will remove him on a small pretext when he’s done enough destroying to suit them. It’s a figurative construct to explain to myself why they stick with him. But he is seeming more and more literally a giant monster of lies, greed, hostility, and racist hate-mongering. It’s getting harder and harder to sleep, with this level of hate being stoked, damage being done to our democracy, and with the threat of nuclear war. Talk about a long national nightmare.