New Hampshire officials blast Trump's 'drug-infested den' comment

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

#U.S.
AUGUST 3, 2017 / 1:46 PM / 31 MINUTES AGO

New Hampshire officials blast Trump's 'drug-infested den' comment

Scott Malone

(Reuters) - New Hampshire officials from both parties lashed out on Thursday after a report that U.S. President Donald Trump called their state a "drug-infested den," with several saying his push to repeal Obamacare would worsen the nation's opioid crisis.

Democratic U.S. Senator and former Governor Maggie Hassan turned to Twitter, one of the Republican president's favorite arenas of political combat, to chastise Trump for his January remark, which the Washington Post revealed on Thursday.

"@realDonaldTrump's comments about New Hampshire are disgusting," Hassan said, referring to Trump by one of his Twitter handles. "As he knows, NH and states across America have a substance misuse crisis. Instead of insulting people in the throes of addiction, @POTUS needs to work across party lines to actually stem the tide of this."

Trump's reported comment came in a Jan. 27 phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, according to a transcript published by the newspaper. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the story.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump is an actual idiot, did you read his WSJ interview?

Further proof he knows nothing, absolutely nothing about real estate or business.

He has the mind of a misbehaving 12 yr old.

He has stiffed THOUSANDS of small business people to make what little money his businesses have made, but in the long run they are pretty much all failures and this is why he owes Russian oligarchs BILLIONS.