CNN's Philip Mudd Blasts Trump on Immigrant Comments
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Tech View
Published on Jan 11, 2018

CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd slammed President Donald Trump Thursday as for his remarks attacking protections for immigrants from "s**thole" countries.

"The president is growing this country on the backbone of bigotry that comes from when I saw my family called spics," Mudd, who worked at the CIA, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

The Washington Post, citing two unnamed sources briefed on the meeting, reported President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers in a meeting about immigration as they floated the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from Africa, El Salvador, and Haiti.

"Why are we having all these people from s**thole countries come here?" Trump said, according to the Post, referring to African countries and Haiti.

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