Durbin calls on White House to release tapes of Trump's remarks about African countries
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is standing behind his statement that President Trump used a vulgar term to refer to African countries and is calling on the White House to release any recordings it might have of the exchange.
Speaking to reporters in his home state, Durbin said Monday he didnt record the conversation between Trump and a bipartisan group of lawmakers last Thursday because visitors are required to check their cell phones before entering the Oval Office. Durbin said he doesnt know if the White House has recordings of the meeting either.
If there was, he said, I want to just call on the White House right now, release whatever you have. If they dont have it, so be it.
Durbin, a Democrat, said last week that Trump had told lawmakers during the meeting on immigration policy that the U.S. didnt need any more immigrants from Haiti and that hed rather have more from Norway and fewer from "shithole countries" in Africa.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/01/15/durbin-calls-white-house-release-tapes-trumps-remarks-african-countries/1033972001/
According to Bill Palmer at the Palmer Report, this challenge by Durbin this morning is probably what led to Trump's name-calling a few hours later:
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/tapes-shithole-trump-dick-durbin/7404/
So why is Durbin suddenly hinting that Trump might have tapes of their meeting? (link). Its probably in response to Trumps admission on Twitter this week that hes begun secretly recording his meetings with reporters. As proof, Trumps White House posted an audio clip from his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. If Trump and his people have reached the point of paranoia where theyre taping his meetings with reporters, then theyve surely become paranoid enough to record his meetings with members of Congress.
Durbin appeared to simply be taking a shot in the dark, on the chance that there are tapes of Trumps shithole countries remark, in the hope of goading Trump into admitting hes secretly recording White House meetings which would cause all kinds of new problems for him. So its worth noting that shortly after Durbin demanded that Trump release tapes, Trump began attacking Durbin on Twitter.
Donald Trump tweeted Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals cant get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military. Is he lashing out because Durbin managed to hit on something real? Have Trump and his White House truly gone Full Nixon by secretly recording every White House meeting that takes place? If so, that could prove to be an even more politically damaging scandal and Robert Mueller would move to subpoena all such tapes immediately.
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paleotn
(17,911 posts)put up or shut up.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)There were 18 minutes missing from the Watergate tapes. There will be days and weeks missing from the Trump tapes.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)He'd never be able to lie if he did!
BumRushDaShow
(128,831 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,831 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I was eating a cracker.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,831 posts)SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Why would they release something that is 100% certain to prove themselves wrong.
Even if there were a recording, it makes absolutely no sense for them to say so. If they say anything, it will be that there are no recordings, though we'll obviously never know.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)You are assuming what Trump & company might do IF they weren't so F'ing stupid. Tell me one common sense move this administration has performed. Drumph is determined dumbassery.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Nothing stupid about that. I think the world knows t-rump is a racist along with the GOPs and their sugar daddies and mommies.
Ted Turner's CNN initially allowed the USA to view the world and vice versa . Now, it's closed again.
Durbin and Feinstein did a very good thing.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)outrage kind of guy. Is he someone who speaks out when he sees wrong ? Yes he has done that in the past and this is a continuation of that.
I can't believe people are saying well, others in the room are saying he didn't say that so durbiin must be making it up or embellishing the story
Uninformed voters could benefit from a tape. I don't need one
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Why should Democrats cooperate with anything this mutant wants to do?
Paladin
(28,252 posts)If there are tapes, release them, per Senator Durbin's demand.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He said it. The world knows it.
This will prove nothing we don't already know.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)...why this is even big news, at least here. It's been common knowledge to everyone on both sides of the aisle that Trump is a racist asshole. That's actually a part of his appeal to his base no matter how much they deny it. We all knew that way before he was president. He campaigned on it for Christ's sake.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)then provoke his ass into saying something really retarded
shouldn't be too hard to do
Cha
(297,137 posts)riversedge
(70,186 posts)Cha
(297,137 posts)NO fucking editing.