The White House has furiously denied a New York Times report which claims President Trump said ‘everyone’ from Haiti has AIDS during a June meeting on immigration.
The report was published on Saturday and cited anonymous sources who told The Times reporters’ they were either there or had been told about the remarks by others who were there.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, White House Chief of Staff General John. Kelly (who was at that time the secretary of homeland security), and domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller were all there.
They said that on the day in question, Trump stormed into the Oval Office clutching ‘sheets of papers’ which revealed how many immigrants had been allowed into the US since he took office.
He was angry that so many had, they said, and made derogatory remarks about the nations on the list.
The White House has furiously denied a New York Times report which claims President Trump said ‘everyone’ from Haiti has AIDS during a June meeting on immigration
According the sources, when Trump learned 15,000 people from Haiti had been granted US visas, he remarked: ‘They all have AIDS’.
Of the 40,000 Nigerian immigrants who had been granted entry, he is alleged to have said they would ‘never go back to their huts in Africa’ now that they had seen the United States.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, denied the claims with volition on Saturday.
‘General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims.
‘It’s both sad and telling The New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous “sources” anyway,’ she said.
The Times cited six officials who were either there or who were briefed on the meeting in its report.
One person claimed to have heard him make the remark about Haitians and a second who was not there said they were told about the same remark afterwards.
Those same two sources were the only ones who said they remembered the racist ‘huts’ remark.
Four others who were there said they did not remember Trump using that language.