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Shitholegate
So "Little Tommy Cottontail" says he never heard Trump use the term shithole and added that Dick Durbin, who said Trump did indeed use that term “has a history” of misrepresenting the truth.
Anyone remember this from 2014?
In Arkansas last week, Rep. Tom Cotton (R), his party’s U.S. Senate nominee, was caught in one of the most brazen lies of the 2014 campaign season. The right-wing congressman claimed he voted against this year’s Farm Bill because President Obama “hijacked” it, “turned it into a food-stamp bill,” and added “billions more in spending.” As a factual matter, literally none of this is even remotely true, and fact-checkers came down hard on such shameless dishonesty.
The Pinocchio Test
Cotton would be on more solid ground if he had looked into the camera and said that, despite a tradition of merging food stamps in the farm bill, he was tired of the politics as usual and took a firm stand against the longstanding practice. Instead, he uses President Obama as a straw man, suggesting the president purposely pushed Congress in a different direction.By creating a fantasy version of history, Cotton certainly sounds like a career politician. We wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, but Cotton’s self-righteous tone tipped this to
Four.
Four Pinocchios
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Now for more of the story aka bullshit from Trump's lackeys.
Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen:“I don’t recall him using that exact phrase”.
Georgia senator David Perdue claimed he did “not recall” whether Trump had uttered the word.
(Why do Republicans seem to have such bad memories?)
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Here's my favorite...
National Review’s Rich Lowry said his sources told him Trump used the word “shithouse,” not “shithole”
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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) contradicted Perdue’s assertion that reports on Trump’s comments were a “gross misrepresentation.”
“All I can say is that I was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who had presented to the president our proposal spoke about the meeting,” Flake told host George Stephanopoulos. “They said those words were used before those words went public.”
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A conservative columnist said President Trump called friends to brag after the meeting in which the president reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as "shithole countries."
"It’s weird that people in the room don’t remember Trump using that word when Trump himself was calling friends to brag about it afterwards," Erick Erickson, who has in the past been critical of Trump, said in a tweet.
"I spoke to one of those friends. The President thought it would play well with the base."............................
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hey Sen. Cotton and other repugs with amnesia----looky here!
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It's like a bad movie you're trapped in and won't be allowed out of the theater.
