Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen lied under oath to a Senate committee when she claimed that Trump didn’t use the words “shithole countries” to describe African nations.
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Here was the exchange between Nielsen and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT):
Sen. Leahy: Last week in the Oval Office, president trump reportedly said the most vulgar and racist things I’ve ever heard a president of either party utter. In fact, I’ve never heard any president, Republican or Democrat, utter anything even similar. Now he denies using the specific word. There’s been some saying maybe he used a different word, maybe he didn’t. Madame Secretary, you were in the room. You’re under oath. Did president trump use this word or a substantially similar word to describe certain countries?
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Nielsen: I did not hear that word used. No, sir.
Leahy: That’s not the question. Did he use anything similar to that, describing certain countries?
Neilsen: 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.
Sec. Nielsen is under oath. There were not that many people in the room, so it is impossible that Republican Senators and an official from the Trump White House all managed to go deaf at the same time. A passionate conversation as Sec. Nielson described does not happen in a whisper.
The official White House strategy on Trump’s racist comment is to lie and pretend like it never happened.
There was a reason why Leahy pointed out to Sec. Nielson that she is under oath before he asked the question. He was giving her one chance to tell the truth. Instead, she chose to lie and protect Trump.
The moral here is that anyone who works for Trump will be forced to lie and place themselves in criminal jeopardy to cover-up for this president.
Nielson could have told the truth, but she chose to be a liar just like her boss.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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