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Senators who didn't recall Trump using vulgarity backtrack - ABC News

posted onJanuary 16, 2018
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Article snippet: Two Republican senators who had said they did not recall President Donald Trump using a vulgarity to describe African countries backtracked Sunday and challenged other senators' descriptions of the remark. Trump has been accused of using the word "shithole" to describe African countries during an Oval Office meeting Thursday with a bipartisan group of six senators in which the president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the U.S., according to people briefed on the conversation but not authorized to describe it publicly. Trump also said in the meeting that he would prefer immigrants from countries like Norway instead. The Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were mistaken in indicating that was the case. All four senators were at the meeting. "I am telling you that he did not use that word. And I'm telling you it's a gross misrepresentation," Perdue said on ABC's "This Week." Cotton said he "didn't hear" the word used — "and I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than Dick Durbin was," Cotton told CBS' "Face the Nation." ——— Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report. Link to the full article to read more

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