Donald Trump offers new alternative facts to explain his problems

Meanwhile, he still has to deal with Congress on the federal budget.

A new way for Mexico to pay for the wall

Trump will not have much thing It's time to look at his allies in the Senate if he wants the government to be in place during the holidays.

"I have often stated" in one way or another, Mexico will pay for the wall, "Trump said on Twitter." This has never changed . Our new agreement with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very expensive and anti-USA NAFTA agreement, that just by the money we are saving, the Mexico pays for the wall! "

But the reality is very different.

The trade agreement has not yet been ratified by Congress.And even if it is ratified, a trade agreement does not exist. would not necessarily flood federal coffers.

Will the United States be able to use the replacement of NAFTA – the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement – to pay

"We are not, "said Phil Levy, senior researcher at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, who has been counting on the potential revenue from a trade deal – either directly through higher tariffs or indirectly through There is no evidence that the USMCA will give the government a windfall on either of the two points.

Even though Mexico was starting to inject Money in the USMCA after its adoption, said Levy, that does not mean Not that he would go to the wall. ] "There is nothing that reserves this type of money to a wall," he said. "Your taxes on income or on corporations – they go into general revenue.But it's still the budget process that determines where these funds go."

And it is this budget process that has blocked Trump.

Will anyone in Washington have to break the President's $ 5 billion

Democrats, who measure the curtains in the offices of the House that they will soon occupy, are not in a good mood since Trump wants the money to be declared. victory over a border wall against which they swore to fight.

The president drew the line in the middle of the oval office earlier this week when he dared almost soon become Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer. stopping reporting that they had been blamed for a brief closure in January

It's largely true, but they had forced closure on how to protect undocumented immigrant children high in the United States who had been stripped of temporary protection by Trump. status. These people have now been dropped during the expenditure negotiations.

Instead, the problem is that Trump, endowed with $ 5 billion, wants to strengthen border security and start erecting its long-awaited wall to the Mexican border. His tweet that Mexico would pay via the USMCA was not an entirely new argument, but just when he had promised a closure. It was like the beginning of a break before parts of the government ran out of money December 21 – the same day, Trump could come out of the White House and get off at Mar-Lago ( Christmas).

Crimes That Are Not Crimes

Trump's point of view on the legal issues faced by former members of his inner circle is no less inventive.

"He has an agreement to embarrass me," Trump said.

Pictures of conservative opinions held at Faulkner, he said. The parent company of National Enquirer, American Media Inc., to "catch and kill" an article about his alleged relationship with Playboy model Karen McDougal did not come from him or his company, so it could not have been involved.

Trump denied having an affair with McDougal.

Cohen, his former handyman and lieutenant, is now – according to his statements to Fox News – a lawyer who "did a very junior job". According to Cohen's guilty pleas, this work included an orchestration of the gain. By the way, Cohen was working on building a Trump tower in Moscow and was negotiating on Trump's stamp as a political figure to do it.

"I never asked him to do anything wrong," Trump said in Fox's interview. "No matter what he's done, he's done it all by himself – he's a lawyer."

Once again, the reality is different. Trump says the payments are not crimes, but Cohen is in jail. The president stated that Cohen was a junior employee who had already done him a favor. In truth, Cohen was a high-ranking lieutenant who spoke on behalf of his former boss and was looking for trade agreements.

Another former assistant who had stumbled upon Trump, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, was best treated by the President during his interview, in part perhaps because he thinks that Flynn is stronger than Cohen but also because he does not know what Flynn has said at the special board office.

"I do not even know what he said about me," said Trump about Flynn. . "Maybe they've scared him enough, he'll come up with a story."

If Flynn says the president did something wrong, Trump will surely have his own story to explain.