GOPer: A crock of s#!t

Denies slur he forgot

A Republican senator who attended the White House immigration meeting denies reports that President Trump used the term “s--thole countries” to refer to Africa, Haiti and El Salvador, calling the claims a “gross misrepresentation.”

“I’m telling you he did not use that word, George. And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation,” Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday — suddenly recalling Trump’s comments after having said Friday he could not remember whether the commander in chief used the vulgar reference.

“The gross misrepresentation was that language was used in there that was not used and also that the tone of that meeting was not contributory and not constructive,” he said.

Perdue (inset) attended the Thursday meeting seeking to hammer out a deal on immigration when an aggravated Trump reportedly wondered aloud why the United States accepts immigrants from “s--thole countries.”

Initially, Perdue and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) issued a statement Friday saying they didn’t recall Trump using the term.

Cotton reiterated on Sunday that he didn’t hear Trump — and questioned the reliability of the Democratic Party senator who first reported it.

“Sen. [Dick] Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meet- ings, though,” Cotton said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

But Durbin spokesman Ben Marter said the matter comes down to who you trust.

“Yesterday, Senators Cotton and Perdue ‘could not recall’ what the president said. Today they can. That, folks, is a credibility problem,” he tweeted Sunday.

Durbin said Thursday that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), who was also in the room, confronted the president after his remarks, speaking up about the important role immigrants play in the country.

Graham seemed to confirm Durbin’s version.

“I said my piece directly to him yesterday,” he said in a statement Friday. “I’ve always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals.” On Sunday, Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love, the first HaitianAmerican elected to Congress, called Trump’s comments “racist.”

“I can’t defend the indefensible,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “There are countries that do struggle out there, but their people are good people. Their people are part of us. We’re Americans.”

After The Washington Post reported on the comments, Trump went on Twitter to deny using the vulgar remarks while acknowledging that he used “tough language.”

But Durbin said Trump’s comments were accurately reported: Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist,” the senator insisted.