{"id":343672,"date":"2018-01-13T22:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-using-shole-comments-as-distraction-and-excuse-to-avoid-talks\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:18:36","slug":"democrats-using-shole-comments-as-distraction-and-excuse-to-avoid-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-using-shole-comments-as-distraction-and-excuse-to-avoid-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Using \u2018S***hole\u2019 Comments as \u2018Distraction\u2019 and \u2018Excuse\u2019 to Avoid Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breitbart<\/strong><\/a>
January 13, 2018<\/p>\n

Democrats may use <\/a>President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged \u201cs***hole\u201d comments as an excuse to abandon negotiations over amnesty, immigration reform, and border security, said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s remarks came during a Thursday interview on SiriusXM\u2019s Breitbart News Tonight<\/em>with Breitbart News\u2019s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.<\/p>\n

Pollak asked Smith if the controversy over the president\u2019s aforementioned remarks would damage the political atmosphere for negotiations. Smith described Democrats\u2019 focus on Trump\u2019s \u201cs***hole\u201d comments as both a\u201ddistraction\u201d and an \u201cexcuse\u201d to avoid good faith negotiations. Partial transcript:<\/p>\n

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POLLAK: Do you think that the president\u2019s remarks, or the controversy about the president\u2019s remarks will make that more difficult?<\/p>\n

SMITH: No. If the Democrats don\u2019t want to negotiate, they\u2019ll always come up with some excuse, and maybe this is an indication that they were never serious to begin with, but they\u2019ll always come up with some reason not to negotiation, or make an excuse not to make concessions. This is just another distraction, another excuse for the Democrats to do that. I think when things settle down over the next several days we\u2019ll find out whether the Democrats were really serious and want to have an immigration bill, want to try to something for some of the so-called DACA folks. We\u2019ll know that in the next few days. It\u2019ll be an indication of whether they\u2019re negotiating in good faith whether they come back to the table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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