US president Donald Trump has offered a partial denial in public over his extraordinary remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries - but privately defended them, according to an insider. US president Donald Trump has offered a partial denial in public over his extraordinary remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries - but privately defended them, according to an insider. Critics of the president, including some in his own Republican Party, attacked the vulgar comments he made behind closed doors. I've never seen a statement like this by African countries directed at the US." The statement from the African ambassadors expressed concern over the Trump regime's apparent increasing denigration of Africa "and people of colour".

Source: Irish Independent January 14, 2018 02:26 UTC