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(171,079 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2019, 05:45 PM Sep 2019

Steve King says he drank from toilet at detention center

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/459973-steve-king-says-he-drank-from-toilet-at-detention-center?fbclid=IwAR2Y3c0J4W8v8tHaEamPOAMRR0rsR5GY68zUtnC6knL_cyKBTeQP9--K6oA

Steve King says he drank from toilet at detention center
By Zack Budryk - 09/04/19 04:55 PM EDT

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) claimed to have drunk from a toilet in a migration center but appeared to be describing the water fountain attached to the facility’s toilet at a town hall Wednesday in the town of Eagle Grove.

“I actually went into that cell where it was reported that [migrants] were advised they had to drink out of the toilet. I took a drink out of there. And actually pretty good!” King says in a clip from the town hall.

“There’s these toilets in these prisons [that] are stainless steel. They’re built so that they are semi-indestructible by the inmates that are there and in the back where the lid would be on our toilet, that’s also sealed,” King added. “It’s not drinking out of the toilet, it’s drinking out of the water fountain that’s integral with the back of the toilet.”

King’s comments appeared to be in reference to an account by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said that she was told by detainees that they were specifically told that the water fountains were broken and that personnel suggested they drink from the toilet bowl instead.

King did not acknowledge the distinction in his comments, suggesting that a “language barrier” led to reports that migrants were made to drink from toilets.

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