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President Donald Trump is defending himself anew against accusations that he is racist, this time after recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations. "No, No.
President Donald Trump is defending himself anew against accusations that he is racist, this time after recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations. "No, No.
President Donald Trump defended himself Sunday in the wake of recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations, declaring that "I am not a racist." Trump addressed the issue briefly as he arrived for dinner at his private golf club with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.
A spokesman for Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is questioning the credibility of a Republican senator who says President Donald Trump did not refer to African countries using a vulgarity during a closed-door meeting. Ben Marter tweeted Sunday, shortly after Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue went on ABC's "This Week" to call reports that Trump used vile language in the meeting a "gross misrepresentation."
Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue said Sunday that President Donald Trump did not use the phrase "shithole countries" during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform last week. "I'm telling you he did not use that word, George, and I'm telling you it's a gross misrepresentation," Perdue told moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week."
A Republican senator is insisting that President Donald Trump did not use a vulgar term in referring to African countries during a closed-door meeting on immigration that he and five other senators attended last week. Georgia Sen. David Perdue called reports describing Trump as using vile language in the meeting a "gross misrepresentation" and said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham were mistaken in indicating that was the case.
A bipartisan agreement among a handful of senators to prevent deportation of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants includes a pathway to citizenship that would take up to 12 years. The Associated Press on Saturday obtained details of the deal includes $1.6 billion for structures including a wall for border security.
Chelsea Handler is coming under fire after she rattled off a tweet that implies South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is gay. The tweet in question also implies that the 62-year-old is being blackmailed with a "dick sucking" video.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he spoke 'directly' to President Trump inside the Oval Office after he reportedly used a crude slur to describe to 's***hole countries' from Africa. Graham said he pushed back at the president - an account that was backed up by Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois - after Trump reportedly made the comment at an Oval Office meeting, where he was also is claimed to have said disparaging things about Haitian immigrants.
"America is an idea, not a race," Graham said, according to three people familiar with the Thursday exchange. Diversity is a strength, he said, not a weakness.
During immigration talks in the Oval Office, President Trump reportedly grew frustrated, using a crude description of Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, according to a report from the Washington Post . The president then suggested that the U.S. try to increase immigration from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met with this week.
Three Republican and three Democratic senators said Thursday they'd reached an election-year accord to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation and to bolster border security. But the White House and several GOP lawmakers said they'd not accepted the proposal, plunging the issue back into uncertainty just eight days before a deadline that threatens a government shutdown.
A group of bipartisan senators has reached a deal on legislation to protect younger immigrants brought to the country illegally, two GOP senators said Thursday.
President Donald Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two 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 African countries and Haiti.
President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed protections for immigrants from "s**thole" countries during an Oval Office meeting about a bipartisan immigration deal, The Washington Post reported. The Post, citing two unnamed sources briefed on the meeting, reported the president became frustrated with lawmakers when they floated the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as part of a deal.
Glenn R. Simpson, former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrives to testify at a closed U.S. House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Nov. 14, 2017. Simpson hired a former British spy to gather opposition research on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race.
Republican lawmakers are looking into contacts between Justice Department officials and reporters assigned to cover the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential elections, Politico is reporting. FBI leaders and top Justice Department officials have been publicly and privately quizzed by GOP congressional investigators about their interactions with journalists, who cover the probe, according to the website.
The FBI is also investigating the Clinton Foundation for possible pay-to-play or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Fired FBI Director James Comey's original Hillary Clinton statement was released to the public Thursday by Senator Ron Johnson .
CONSERVATIVES' MEMO TO CONGRESS - YOU STILL GOTTA KILL OBAMACARE: It shouldn't have to be said but a large group of influential conservative activist groups know Republicans leading Congress need to be reminded over and over - they promised for seven years to repeal Obamacare, so what are they waiting for now, eight years later? LifeZette's Brendan Kirby points out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has his mind on other matters: "McConnell has sent conflicting signals in recent weeks. He told National Public Radio before Christmas that the Senate would 'probably move on to other issues.'