WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has vehemently denied he is a racist, as Americans remembered civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr Monday amid an uproar over a reported presidential slur. The denial late Sunday came three days after Trump was quoted as calling African nations and Haiti ?shithole countries,? setting off a storm of condemnation that threatened to derail a bipartisan compromise on immigration. ?I?m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed,? Trump told reporters as he arrived at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida for dinner with Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Trump also denied, once again, making the offensive remarks attributed to him ? despite the insistence of at least one senator that the president used the words repeatedly during a White House meeting on immigration Thursday.
01-16-2018, 09:00 AM
Trump denies he?s a racist as Americans honour King
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