Trump SLAPS DOWN New York Times report on his Mexico deal

by SooperMexican

El Presidente Trumpo was not pleased with a report from the New York Times last night that the U.S. did not actually get any concessions from Mexico and that most of the items they agreed upon where things that Mexico had already agreed to.

He anger-tweeted about it and rejected the story:

Here’s what the NYT said, from the Hill:

President Trump’s deal with Mexico on Friday to drop plans to impose sweeping tariffs on the country in exchange for Mexico’s promise to crack down on illegal migration is reportedly made up largely of actions that Mexican officials had already agreed to in discussions over the past several months, The New York Times reported Saturday.

According to the Times, officials from both countries said Mexico’s agreement on Friday to deploy its national guard throughout Mexico, “giving priority to its southern border,” had already been promised in March during secret discussions with then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Olga Sanchez, the Mexican secretary of the interior, in Miami.

Officials told the Times that the central part of Friday’s deal, which expanded the program permitting asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims are processed, was also agreed upon before Friday’s announcement. The Times noted that the Migrant Protection Protocols were announced in December by Nielsen during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

And, interestingly, a Mexican official was very reticent to admit that one thing the president touted wasn’t quite true:

Interesting. We’ll have to see what comes of the new deal. I saw a report that Mexicans were celebrating this morning, but we should expect that of the government officials…


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