Two Republican senators called into question whether President Donald Trump used the term “shithole countries” in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration last week, as critics of the president didn’t back down and continued to suggest his words were racist. “I am telling you that he did not use that word,” Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.), who attended the meeting, said on ABC’s “This Week.” Mr. Perdue said much of the reporting on the meeting has been a “gross misrepresentation.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 14, 2018 19:24 UTC