Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen defended the president Tuesday during a Senate hearing.
Sen. Dick Durbin peppered her with questions regarding a closed-door meeting in which President allegedly used a nasty term to describe African immigrants.
“There was a lot of rough talk by a lot of people in the room. But what I understood him to be saying is let’s move away from the countries and let’s look at the individual,” Nielsen said.
“I don’t specifically remember a categorization of countries in Africa.”
When Durbin responded incredulously, she doubled down.
“Let’s see, strong language. There was, ah – apologies I don’t remember a specific word. What I was struck with frankly … is just the general profanity that was used in the room by almost everyone,” she answered.
Durbin was flabbergasted.
“Did you hear me use profanity?” he asked.
“No sir, neither did I,” Nielsen responded.
“I did hear tough language from Senator [Lindsey] Graham… I remember specific cusswords being used by a variety of members.”
Durbin alleges that Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “sh*thole countries” and questioned why the U.S. doesn’t take more immigrants from countries like Norway.
“I heard him repeating what he had learned in a meeting before [with the country’s prime minister] that they are industrious, that they are a hardworking country, they don’t have much crime there, they don’t have much debt,” Nielsen said.
“In general I just heard him giving compliments to Norway.”
Nielsen’s defense comes at a timely moment.
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(Source: Daily Mail)