Listen… obviously I’m not a huge fan of Jake Tapper’s…
But I’m going to give him credit for this.
He realizes there’s misinformation floating around with this “sh*thole” fiasco… so he’s using his platform to get more information out there… despite the fact that it squelches SOME of the lib’s complaints.
So how and why is President Trump denying the remarks that he reportedly said?
I have some clarifying reporting from a source familiar the meeting. I want to start by saying that this does not make what he said any more acceptable, but it might shed some light on it all. 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
WHOOOO BOY! Here we go. Are you ready? I’m ready.
The president did not refer to Haiti as a “shithole” country according to the source familiar with the meeting… though he DID say it about countries in Africa…
What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president. 2/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
First, when talking about “temporary protected status” countries as part of the immigration deal it was mentioned that Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians have that status. 3/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
“Haitians?” the president said. “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out” —- meaning take them out of the deal.
4/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
TAKE THEM OUT OF THE DEAL. Remember that. President Trump is NOT calling for Haitians to be “taken out” … however you want to take that.
Then in a separate part of the conversation when they were referencing the diversity visa lottery, President Trump referred to people coming from Africa as coming from “shithole countries.”
Again, I’m not saying this is better. Just that this is what happened, per my source. 5/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
Ok… so he did say “sh*thole countries” but not about Haiti or El Salvador.
6/ So that might explain the kinda-pushback from POTUS today. -fin-
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
Got it. Good info. Doesn’t really help or hurt Trump at this point. Jake is just putting it out there.
BEGIN THE MELTDOWN!
I get it now, it’s ok if he referred to other countries as shitholes! He doesn’t need your help Jake. It’s all a matter of semantics, don’t try to normalize him.
— Chuck Roberts (@Keeperofthecast) January 12, 2018
So by reporting information, Jake Tapper is now a Trump apologist. GOT IT. JAKE TAPPER IS ON THE TRUMP TRAIN CHOO CHOOOOOO.
This changes nothing. Still racist still contemptible. Stop trying to clean it up
— Dana Bennett (@dbarika77) January 12, 2018
Jake, So why are you wasting our time ? Trump made the disparaging comment and you are here splicing it, like it makes a difference!
— EeDiva (@EeDiva_) January 12, 2018
HOW DARE HE TRY TO RECTIFY INACCURATE INFORMATION OMG?!?!!
God… these people are insane.
So Jake responds… and I have to applaud him for it… at least in this case.
If you don’t want facts, don’t follow me.
I said this didn’t make it more acceptable. But it is what happened, my source says.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2018
Jake Tapper is obviously a racist, too.
PS
Are we just going to pretend that Somalia for example isn’t a “shithole?”
— Mike Critchfield (@mmccritch) January 12, 2018
Yes that’s what they want us to do. pic.twitter.com/IQfdprEFdI
— BasedInfidel🥓🍺🇺🇸 (@Baconlvr23) January 12, 2018