SerialBrain9 wrote on Jun 16
th, 2019 at 7:42am:
it_is_the_light wrote on Jun 15
th, 2019 at 10:20pm:
Media Accuses Trump Of Holding Blank Paper After Mexico Agreement, Then TRUTH Is Revealed
Fake News Media caught out again.
Why do they lie so much Mr Kanga?
"Lie", so you're making up intent now?
There is a secret deal between Trump and Mexico. Trump keeps talking about it (so much for secret), but won't tell us what it is. He is doing this because he was exposed in HIS LIE about the tariffs working to pressure Mexico into making a deal that they'd already signed months ago. Every time Trump and the Whitehouse is asked for information about the secret deal they refuse to say anything.
Mexican and top US officials when questioned didn't even know the existence of the deal.
So Trump then holds up a bit of paper, a single sheet, saying "this is the deal, it's done" and then is asked to show the cameras, but he refuses. From the footage, when it's folded it looks empty, so the media pose the question, did Trump hold up an empty piece of paper.
That's different than saying flat out he did have a blank piece of paper. I'm sure there are some commentators who said that, however.
We know how dishonest Trump is, especially when he's already been caught out lying, he always doesn't down and lies more. Then he shows a prop, but refuses to allow anyone else to see it. The logical conclusion is that it's not a real agreement in his hand. Which would make sense. Rarely when something of such importance is signed, it doesn't stay in the breast pocket of the ill-fitting jacket of the President...
What Trump did, was basically the format of QAnon. He was exposed as saying something that wasn't true, invented something to cover for it, then refused to give proof or evidence of it.
Looking at what we can make out from the letter, it does bring up a few questions.
1) The first question is obviously whether the document is legitimate. It is signed by two people, that we can see, with the one on the left apparently being an American signatory and the one on the right being a Mexican one. Neither of these signatures are from the respective presidents, top diplomats or ambassadors to the other country. (There could be other signatures that aren't in view, along with the text of each names. The document appears to be folded in thirds, and the signatures appear to come before the fold that is two-thirds of the way through the document.)
2) The paper clearly deals with some kind of "burden-sharing," apparently with regard to "refugees." The prevailing wisdom is that Trump may have been referring to some kind of deal involving asylum rules, possibly a "safe third country agreement" in which Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States would be held in Mexico while their claims are processed (a controversial topic in Mexico). The Washington Post doesn't generally refer to asylum seekers as "refugees," but the concept is similar, so that makes some sense. If this is the case, the agreement does nothing to stop illegal entry as he's claiming which would explain why he doesn't want to share the details, because it would expose more lies from him and the Whitehouse.
3) It's not clear from the text what the agreement might entail beyond that - or if all the details have even been sorted out. The second paragraph sounds like standard language indicating that Mexico must determine which laws or regulations must be changed. The third paragraph suggests that this is something the United States can trigger after 45 days and that it would be up to the Mexican government to put it into effect in the next 45 days. This all tracks with Trump's tweet suggesting the Mexican legislature would need to be consulted, which would make sense if this has to do with asylum rules.
4) The big question is what's in the first visible paragraph that we can't see, and what might come before it. It seems unlikely, given there is only one-third of a sheet of paper above that first visible paragraph, that there are extensive guidelines for what the deal entails. But there appears to be enough of an agreement that Mexico would immediately be put in the position of trying to implement it, rather than engage in further negotiations.
In the end, your song and dance about the media lying could end up, once the details are known, being yet another example of Trump being caught out lying.
If that happens, will you leave?
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