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Question

"off the record comments"?

Aug 31, 2018 12:00PM PDT

WHY? For what purpose?

Creating "fake news"?

NAFTA talks rocked by media leak of off-record Trump comments on Canada

Trump has been trying to negotiate a new NAFTA with both trading partners. He announced Monday that he has secured a tentative deal with Mexico and said “we’ll see” if Canada can be part of the new agreement. The administration had set a deadline of Friday for a deal with Canada.

But The Toronto Star reports that it obtained comments from an off-the-record portion of an Oval Office interview between Trump and Bloomberg News. In those remarks, Trump said he isn’t making compromises with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, but isn’t going to say so publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”

HE isn't going to say it publicly because?

Because the whole thing is a failure and HE is trying to save as much of his orange face as possible.

We'll see what happens. Devil

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