DHS Chief Says Under Oath That Trump Used 'Tough Language' In Meeting
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham | January 16, 2018 11:24 am
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During an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-NH) asked DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was at the meeting in question, about the reports.
“You were in the room,” he told Nielsen. “You’re under oath. Did President Trump use this word or a substantially similar word to describe certain countries?” Leahy asked.
“I did not hear that word used, no sir,” Nielsen said.
“That is not the question. Did he use anything similar to that describing certain countries?” Leahy asked. Various reports days after the fact cited unnamed White House officials who claimed Trump may have been using the word “shithouse.”
Nielsen responded: “The conversation was very impassioned. I don’t dispute that the President was using tough language. Others in the room were also using tough language. The concept, and the context, I believe, in which this came up was the concept that the President would like to move to a merit-based system. He would like to not— no longer look at quotas —”
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‘I did not hear that word used’: DHS Secretary Nielsen responds when asked about Trump’s vulgar comments
By Ed O'Keefe and Nick Miroff January 16 at 11:18 AM
Homeland Security Kristjen Nielsen confirmed that President Trump used “tough language” in an Oval Office meeting last week over immigration policy, but she said she did not hear him describe some African countries and Haiti as “shithole countries,” as has been reported.
Nielsen confirmed Trump’s tone while testifying under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Nielsen whether Trump had used the vulgarity to describe the countries “or a substantially similar word.”
“I did not hear that word used,” Nielsen told members of the committee. When Leahy asked again, Nielsen said, “The conversation was very impassioned. I don’t dispute that the president was using tough language. Others in the room were also using tough language.”
“The president used tough language in general, as did other congressmen in the room, yes sir,” she said later, when Leahy pressed her again.
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