CHICAGO _ U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin Friday said President Donald Trump used "hate-filled, vile and racist" language when talking about immigrants from Haiti and Africa, and that press accounts of what Trump said have been accurate.
Durbin talked to reporters prior to the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Breakfast in Chicago. Asked what Trump said during the Thursday Oval Office meeting on immigration reform that Durbin attended, the senator described the president's language.
"In the course of his comments, (Trump) said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist," Durbin said. "I use those words advisedly. I understand how powerful they are."
"I cannot believe that in the history of the White House and of that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday. You've seen the comments in the press. I have not read one of them that's inaccurate."
