Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
President Trump denies calling Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” in an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers but conservative radio host Erick Erickson reports Trump himself called friends to brag about it afterwards.
Said Erickson: “I spoke to one of those friends. The President thought it would play well with the base.”
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