Sen. Tom Cotton Contracts “Shithole” Amnesia

January 12, 2018 Idiocracy, Racism

Two Republican senators who attended yesterday’s meeting in which President Trump reportedly disparaged immigrants from “shithole countries” seem to have come down with a case of amnesia.

In a joint statement this afternoon, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) wrote that they “do not recall the President saying those comments specifically” — but conspicuously didn’t outright deny that he said them.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told the Post and Courier that his South Carolina colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham, who attended the meeting, told him Trump’s reported comments were “basically accurate.”

Senators Perdue & Cotton on Trump yesterday: “we do not recall the President saying those comments specifically” pic.twitter.com/nLQb34r6x3

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) January 12, 2018