{"id":36752,"date":"2019-06-10T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36752"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:58:38","slug":"defrauded-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/defrauded-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Defrauded Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A few days ago the Orange Cheato Bandito, aka Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, expounded at length about how his tariff threats had made Mexico back down.&nbsp; He said his wisdom had helped protect us all from all the vile evils that cross the border with those sub-human refugees.&nbsp; It turns out that this happened completely differently from Trump&#8217;s claim.&nbsp; He, not the Mexicans, was the one that backed down.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0926Trumpnocchio.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump took a victory lap this weekend for an 11th hour Mexico trade and immigration deal that narrowly averted the imposition of tariffs by Washington on its southern neighbor.  <\/p>\n<p>But as a senior Democratic lawmaker explained on Sunday, rather than bending Mexico to his will, the agreement ultimately amounted to a cave-in by the president to his fellow GOP lawmakers, who over the past few several days have objected strenuously to the proposed tariffs.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>And news reports said Sunday that the agreement reached by negotiators actually just reaffirmed a deal already agreed upon by Washington and Mexico City<\/strong>&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-caved-republicans-mexico-tariff-7acf38d31aac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Trump ever tells the truth about anything, the shock to our systems may be terminal.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago the Orange Cheato Bandito, aka Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, expounded at length about how his tariff threats had made Mexico back down.&nbsp; He said his wisdom had helped protect us all from all the vile evils that cross the border with those sub-human refugees.&nbsp; It turns out that this happened completely differently from <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/defrauded-again\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}