Trump staff had to ask Justin Trudeau to call Trump to make him back down from exiting NAFTA

Remember how last month Donald Trump threatened that he would end NAFTA and then he bragged that Canada and Mexico called him to negotiate? Well, turns out it was Trump's staff the ones who called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ask him to call Trump. This was reported today by the Candaian press.

White House staff called the Prime Minister’s Office last month to urge Justin Trudeau to persuade President Donald Trump not to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to multiple Canadian government sources.

The unconventional diplomatic manoeuvre — approaching the head of a foreign government to influence your own boss — proved decisive, as Trump thereafter abandoned his threat to pull out of NAFTA unilaterally, citing the arguments made by Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as pivotal.

DAY 25: Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbus Ross has manufacturing interests in Mexico

Today Mexican newspaper El Universal published an article pointing out to the fact that Donald Trump's Commerce Secretaru, Wilbur Ross, has interests in the autopart manufacturing business in Mexico.

Data from the US Labor Department shows that Ross is the founder and stockholder of Automotive Component Group (IAC Group), which bought in 2006 Lear Corporation, one of the main autopart manufacturers operating in the border state of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Trump lies (again) about Mexico over trade and border issues, and we debunk him

Donald Trump insisted on attacking Mexico on trade and border issues:

Mexico has taken advantage of the U.S. for long enough. Massive trade deficits & little help on the very weak border must change, NOW!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 27, 2017

He lied. Twice. So we're going to debunk Trumo. Let's start with the border issue: