Mexico Spox: President Mentioned the Wall to Trump, But There Was ‘No Discussion’
Okay. We have somehow entered a dimension in which Donald Trump can claim there was no discussion of paying for the border wall and the President of Mexico can say they did talk about it and THEY CAN BOTH BE RIGHT.
Huh?
Trump was specifically asked in Mexico today if he and President Enrique Peña Nieto talked about who’s gonna pay for the border wall. He said they didn’t.
THEN Peña Nieto said they actually did talk about it.
So obviously someone’s lying here, right?
Well, um, a spokesperson for Peña Nieto told The Wall Street Journal‘s David Luhnow that somehow neither one is lying:
Mexican prez spokesman @ESanchezHdz tells me @EPN opened meeting with statement that discussed things like migration (1/3)
— David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) September 1, 2016
As part of that statement, @epn said flatly Mexico wouldn't pay for wall. Spox says Trump didn't respond, so there was "no discussion." 2/3
— David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) September 1, 2016
Because there was no discussion, spox says @realDonaldTrump wasn't lying when he said they didn't discuss who would pay for wall. 3/3
— David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) September 1, 2016
Got it? Peña Nieto said that they wouldn’t pay for the wall… but since Trump said there was no “discussion” per se, he wasn’t lying either.
I mean, it still sounds like Trump deliberately brushed aside the fact that Peña Nieto smacked that idea down right away, so at best it was misleading.
(P.S. This could all end up being null and void following the next round of clarification anyway.)
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