Booker Lashes Out At DHS Secretary
Sen. Cory Booker slammed the homeland security secretary in a speech Tuesday morning for claiming ignorance to the President’s slander of African countries.
The impassioned remarks came toward the end of an often testy oversight hearing in which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied hearing President Donald Trump say the words “shithole” or “shithouse” in a White House meeting on immigration last week.
DHS secretary says Trump used ‘tough’ language on immigration but denies hearing specific slurs
DHS secretary says Trump used ‘tough’ language on immigration but denies hearing specific slurs
Evoking the words of Martin Luther King and the “greatest heroes in this country who spoke out about people who have convenient amnesia or who are bystanders,” Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, said Nielsen was “complicit” in the damage done by Trump’s reported insult.
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