Well, the real Orrin Hatch is back - Trump doesn't have a racist bone

[Danmel]

Sen. Orrin Hatch: Trump 'doesn't have a racist bone in his body', has 'done a lot' to fight racism

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, defended President Trump as someone who "doesn't have a racist bone in his body" as the commander in chief faces backlash over his comments about the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend.

Hatch, who said he spoke with Trump over the phone on the matter, repeated those words throughout an interview with KUTV, a CBS affiliate in Salt Lake City.


"To ascribe racism to the president which some people are trying to do is not only hitting below the belt it's vicious stuff," Hatch said. "He's done a lot to try and help quell racism in this country."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sen-orrin-hatch-trump-doesnt-have-a-racist-bone-in-his-body-has-done-a-lot-to-fight-racism/article/2631807

I'm beginning to think they'd defend him if he started wearing Nazi regalia. "He's a history buff. He knows more about history that anyone ever."

[spanone]

1. i knew it wouldn't take long for the republicans to rally around der leader

[C_U_L8R]

2. So is Hatch calling Trump a liar

When he says Nazis are fine people ????

I'd say a Nazi supporter like Trump is a true racist but maybe Hatch has a different definition.

[Bettie]

3. Nah, he's saying that

he also believes that Nazis are fine people.

It's really the only way to make sense of the statement.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Ah yes of course

Hatch must be a racist Nazi too.

[Bettie]

9. At the minimum

he's saying he's OK with it.

Which makes him a sympathizer with both racists and Nazis.

Or, he's an opportunistic asshole with no actual beliefs or moral code.

[madaboutharry]

5. Orrin Hatch is a political hack.

He says whatever is convenient in the moment. I saw him in an interview where he flipped positions on a dime after being corrected about a fact he got wrong, and with a straight face make a forceful argument contradicting what he had just said 3 minutes before.

[oasis]

10. Hatch's lying attack on Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas fiasco

lost him all credibility. It's been all downhill since then.

[gademocrat7]

6. Hatch needs to retire.

His remarks are shameful.

[SharonClark]

7. Says the sycophant white man about the raging orange man

[democratisphere]

8. Orrin forgot to take his meds.

He suffers from multiple personality disorder.

[bdamomma]

11. what??? this makes no sense

reading this makes me do this:

[Scruffy1]

12. they are all string puppets.

it should be obvious by now that the nearly the entie Republican senators take their orders from a controller. If they step just a little out of line they immediately are ordered back in line by their handlers and contradict themselves readily. I always figured they were all blackmailed. Watched Graham and McCain do 180 degree about faces too many times to do otherwise.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Sen. Hatch - what has Trump done to fight racism?

Please be specific with your answer. I'm looking for concrete examples.