Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D) accused President Donald Trump on Friday of referring to African countries as "s***holes" during a meeting that they both attended on Thursday.
Durbin told reporters that what Trump said was "hate-filled, vile and racist," adding that "the most disheartening thing to me is my belief that that was the first time words that hateful had been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House."
There's just one problem with Durbin's claims: He has a history of making up statements from private White House meetings.
In 2013, Politico reported:
“In a ‘negotiation’ meeting with the president, one GOP House Leader told [President Barack Obama]: ‘I cannot even stand to look at you,’” Durbin wrote in a post on his Facebook page over the weekend.
However, both the White House and the House speaker’s office denied Durbin’s account of events.
Asked about the post in the White House daily briefing, press secretary Jay Carney said he checked with a participant of the meeting in question.
“I looked into this and spoke with somebody who was in that meeting and it did not happen,” Carney said.
Politico added that Durbin's office "had no comment on the post and offered no further details."
"Sen. Durbin’s accusation is a serious one, and it appears to have been invented out of thin air," said Brendan Buck, spokesman for then-House Speaker John Boehner. "The senator should disclose who told him this account of events, retract his reckless allegation immediately, and apologize."
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“the most disheartening thing to me is my belief that that was the first time words that hateful had been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House.”
HAHAHA – what a clown – ever heard what Lyndon Baines Johnson said about Black people?
The MSM got what they wanted and the TRUTH does not matter.
Do not expect a retraction from Durbin or the MSM.
It is now up to the Republicans in that meeting to come out swinging and to attack Durbin. If they do not do that the damage will have been done.
But Republicans are notoriously gentlemen like and do not do that- at their own expense.
Durbin thinks lying is debating
Woodrow Wilson expressed his thoughts in both speeches and books.
Turban Durbin must have failed history too.
Dick’s lying makes him a “good Democrat.”
He lied to the voters of his old Illinois legislative district when he claimed to be “Pro LIFE,” but when he won eletion to D.C. he magically became “Pro CHOICE.”
Yes, I am cursed with a good memory…especially when it comes to liars like Durbin.
Durbin also pretended to be pro-gun ownership before he sought higher office and began running statewide.
Smart money thinks that Durbin manufactured this controversy to derail the negotiations and to place the blame on Trump because the Democrats want to use the topic as a pretext for a government shutdown.
I expect Dick Durbin’s resignation on my desk my the end of the day
Durbin is peak embarrassment.
This is the same loud-mouthed Dick Durbin who called American troops in Guantanamo “Nazis.”
He wants to be the senator for all illegal non-citizens and cares naught for Americans who pay him his undeserved salary, bennies and pension.
He should resign, retire from politics and move to Haiti or El Salvador.
“A Government Shutdown.” Isn’t that what the Democrats and the media ran around in circles, screaming, accused the REPUBLICANS of attempting to do just a few short years ago?
HYPOCRISY, thy name is “Democrat.”