A few quick thoughts on the Trump immigration comments controversy.

President Donald Trump. 

 I was going to write a long rant on someone's facebook page about the controversy where Trump reportedly called Hati, El Salvador and the nations of Africa "shithole" countries, but I thought it would be better to post it here. This isn't going to be a full post, just a refutation to a wider argument. 

 1. The "shithole" comments are unproven and given the "he said he said" nature of the accusations, we won't know for sure who said what. That being said I don't trust a damn thing coming out of the media's mouth. It's broken down on partisan lines, as always. The only people that have said Trump has said the comments are Democrats or Republican opponents like Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, and they have reasons to lie. Jeff Flake especially does as he blames the president for why he had to drop out of the Senate Race in Arizona.  Other senators have denied that Trump has made the comment. Without a recording or a non biased witness, which won't exist in Washington, we won't ever know exactly what he said. With such ambiguity over what happened, it is not fair at all to judge Trump for this incident. 

Senators Perdue & Cotton on Trump yesterday: "we do not recall the President saying those comments specifically" pic.twitter.com/nLQb34r6x3

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) January 12, 2018

2. Even if he said it though, it's undoubtedly true that Haiti, El Salvador and most of Africa are, indeed, shitholes. I could post their crime rates, but I don't need to do so because everyone knows its true already. Had you mentioned either of these countries before Trump supposedly said this, you would, at the very least, say that they are failed 3rd world countries with massive crime rates, poor economic production and low education levels/average IQ. My guess is that the vast majority of people do and will continue to accurately say that they are, indeed, shitholes. Saying true things isn't racism and the argument that it is racist is a direct assault on reality itself. The people arguing otherwise are no different than the people that say "we were always at war with Eastasia".

 Well now it's "everything Trump says is racist, despite what he says being true and despite being believed by almost everyone". "Everything my opponent says is evil" is way more evil that just about anything else. By far the most important thing that Trump has done is that it has allowed people to say true things that aren't politically correct. It's an inconvenient fact for people that Haiti and El Salvador are terrible by any measure but it is a fact nonetheless. When we can't say true facts without being accused of being a terrible person, then we are well and truly lost and not worth saving. 

  3. The question of who we let into our country is the most important question of our day. People that accuse others of racism for wanting to make sure what has happened in Europe, where women are now too afraid to go outside at night in fear of migrant rapists and have frequent grenade attacks (Sweden for example), doesn't happen here are, in fact, evil. They are lying about the real risk of bringing these people here and the fact that at least some innocent people will be harmed by doing so. And they are doing it in a way that can cause real social and economic damages to the people that disagree with them. 

 There isn't a defense for that. You can make arguments that we should let in these people for moral reasons, or that by taking the best of the best we mitigate the risk, but if you aren't mentioning the possible downsides you are being dishonest at best. But if your only argument for taking in people from Haiti and El Salvador is that everyone who disagrees is racist than you are an evil person.

 4. These comments were never meant for public consumption, assuming that they exist in the first place. What is said in a private meeting not open to the public should remain so. The fact that this is even a story reveals a huge problem in Washington where everyone leaks to the media at all times, almost always at the expense of the President. Given the track records of those leaks you can easily assume that these comments either didn't happen or are being framed to make Trump look as bad as possible. 

 5. The entire event is trying to distract from the massive negative news stories that are coming out for the Democrats. They understand how devastating the OIG report will be for them and they also know that the FBI/Fusion GPS story is going to dominate for quite some time. If you don't know what I am talking about here, than you shouldn't be talking about politics at all, but don't worry. Everyone will know soon enough. This whole incident is an attempt to reverse that momentum of bad news by getting in a dig at the President before it all comes crashing down. They know they can't stop it so they are throwing out whatever sticks via the media. See yesterdays ridiculous story about Trump and Stormy Daniels. They have been doing it since it was clear that Trump was going to win the GOP nomination and I don't understand why people keep falling for it.