The most recent attack on the president is designed to throw him off balance during the debate on immigration.
Senator Durbin, doing his best Claude Rains imitation, stated, "I cannot believe that, in the history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday." Durbin was responding to Trump's alleged comment that Haiti, El Salvador, and certain African countries are "s‑‑‑holes." Many of the reports omit mention of El Salvador because it does not fit the anti-black allegations.
Senator Durbin is not a young man, and he certainly must have known about liberal icon Lyndon Johnson's frequent use of the decidedly anti-black word "n-----." Snopes describes Johnson as "a sometime racist and notorious vulgarian who rarely shied away from using the N-word in private."
Current criticism does not describe Trump as a "sometime racist." He is a full-time racist. Were his remarks, if he actually said them, racist? Racism is often in the eye of the beholder. Was President Obama being racist when he commented on working-class voters: "they get bitter; they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"? Was Obama being racist when he called Libya a "[s---] show?" Was Bill Clinton being racist when he remarked about President Obama to Senator Kennedy, "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags"?
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