President Donald Trump accused Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of undermining trust needed to strike a deal on immigrants by misinterpreting what he said about poor nations at an Oval Office meeting last week.
“Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military,” Trump tweeted, according to CNN.
Trump didn’t explicitly deny using that word, but rather lashed out at the Democratic senator, who maintained that the president said it on several occasions during the meeting. He further said that the White House needs to release any recording it has of the meeting. Durbin’s claim was supported by Senator Lindsey Graham.
However, despite reports that Trump used harsh language to refer to immigrants from Africa and Haiti, and insisted that the U.S. needed more people from countries like Norway, the president said on Martin Luther King Jr.’s day that America’s dream is the same as King’s, “a world where people are judged by who they are, not how they look or where they come from.”
On the day of remembrance for King Jr., Trump spent the day at his golf course, bypassing the acts of service that his predecessor staged in honor of the civil rights leader.
Regarding the alleged remarks, Martin Luther King III, King’s elder son, said: “When a president insists that our nation needs more citizens from white states like Norway, I don’t even think we need to spend any time even talking about what it says and what it is. We got to find a way to work on this man’s heart.”
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