The White House has denied reports that President Donald Trump suggested Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS” and Nigerian immigrants would “never go back to their huts.”
New York Times sources stated that President Trump made the remarks in June at a meeting with senior staff about immigration where he was complaining about the fact that too many immigrants were being given a US visa.
White House Correspondents revealed now to the New York Times that Trump did not in fact use the words “huts” or “Aids” in the immigration meeting. Instead, they say they are fabrications from anonymous sources in an attempt to damage Trump’s credibility.
The White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, stated that John Kelly (White House chief of staff), H.R. McMastern (national security adviser), and Rex Tillerson (US Secretary of State) were all in the meeting and deny that Trump said those words.
“General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims.” She said
“And it’s both sad and telling the New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway.” She said
New York Times sources reveal that Trump complained to his National Security Team that his campaign to erect strong borders was being undermined by the amount of immigrants entering the US.
Afterwards, he was reported as reading statistics out that 15,000 immigrants came from Haiti in a brief of how many immigrants had received US visas so far in 2017, then adding “they all have AIDS.”
“40,000 had come from Nigeria and would never “go back to their huts once they’d seen America.” he added The New York Times informant gathered the comments had been reported by 2 anonymous officials.