Editor’s note: See important update from President Trump below.
As everyone in the Western world and beyond knows by now, the president reportedly said ‘sh*thole countries’ at an off-the-record bipartisan meeting with lawmakers over DACA on Thursday.
The remark was first reported by the Washington Post as follows:
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
After heavy mouth-breathing at the networks, including CNN’s Anderson Cooper nearly in tears and Don Lemon lashing out with a furious tirade that blasted remaining Trump supporters as racists and implying during a moment of silence they should go… ahem… there are conflicting reports about what was actually said.
There was also this “sort of” denial by President Trump that makes more sense after further reportage.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951793123985973248
Jake Tapper has weighed in with some clarifying backstory on what happened at the meeting.
So how and why is President Trump denying the remarks that he reportedly said?
I have some clarifying reporting from a source familiar the meeting. I want to start by saying that this does not make what he said any more acceptable, but it might shed some light on it all. 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
The president did not refer to Haiti as a “shithole” country according to the source familiar with the meeting… though he DID say it about countries in Africa…
What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president. 2/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
First, when talking about “temporary protected status” countries as part of the immigration deal it was mentioned that Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians have that status. 3/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
“Haitians?” the president said. “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out” —- meaning take them out of the deal.
4/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
Then in a separate part of the conversation when they were referencing the diversity visa lottery, President Trump referred to people coming from Africa as coming from “shithole countries.”
Again, I’m not saying this is better. Just that this is what happened, per my source. 5/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
6/ So that might explain the kinda-pushback from POTUS today. -fin-
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
There you have it. After an initial wave of reports showing the problem with off-the-record remarks being leaked to the press, it appears that the president’s “sh*thole countries” comment referred specifically to impoverished African countries with notoriously corrupt regimes.
Trump is canceling his trip to London, his reason is just plain sad
This may or may not change the way one views the language the president reportedly used, but it certainly clarifies more exactly what he was talking about.
UPDATE:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951813216291708928
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