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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo sign of Trump-Mexico deal on farm goods (AP FACT CHECK)
President Donald Trump is bragging about a new deal with Mexico that provides for large sales of U.S. farm goods, but it doesnt appear to exist.
In weekend tweets, he announced in all capital letters that he had won the agreement to benefit Americas great patriot farmers, and that U.S. sales would begin immediately. There isnt any sign of that happening, however. Mexican officials denied that anything on agriculture was included in the deal on border security reached Friday to avert Trumps threatened tariffs.
Theres no evidence that Mexico agreed to large purchases of agricultural products from the U.S. as part of the deal to avoid tariffs. Nor did the White House provide any details to show such a deal exists.
When Mexicos ambassador to the United States, Martha Barcena, was asked repeatedly Sunday on CBS Face the Nation whether there was a new agricultural deal, she referenced instead the potential impact of the separate United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal, which has yet to be approved by Congress.
https://www.apnews.com/45dba98a51974c16a3f5eac74a8d0eed
Botany
(70,567 posts)His lips are moving. The tariffs on Mexico to make them stop people from central America
coming to America were DOA in the Republican controlled senate and that is why Trump
is now claiming a victory w/a deal that never existed w/Mexico.
Washington Post, "President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/29/president-trump-has-made-more-than-false-or-misleading-claims/?utm_term=.fd9f68d29e1d
lark
(23,147 posts)His tiny little orange fingers are moving. Whether it's his mouth or fingers moving, it's all lies.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Except he wasn't in the MBA school that Wharton was known for and he finished nowhere
near the top of his class @ the U. of Penn but that never stopped Trump from lying about
something that could so easily be checked. Trump went so far as claiming that his wife/
sex worker had a 4 year degree from a University in Slovenia where she went for 1 semester
before dropping out to be a model/sex worker.
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