WaPo transcript of Trump-Nieto call is "extraordinary unusual kind of leak"

[kpete]

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.....in his first White House call with Mexico’s president, Trump described his vow to charge Mexico as a growing political problem, pressuring the Mexican leader to stop saying publicly that his government would never pay.

“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.

The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”

He described the wall as “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/you-cannot-say-that-to-the-press-trump-urged-mexican-president-to-end-his-public-defiance-on-border-wall-transcript-reveals/2017/08/03/0c2c0a4e-7610-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?tid=ss_tw-amp&utm_term=.be3d9a1833ec

[yallerdawg]

1. How incompetent and ineffective can an administration be!

Forget about the extraordinary nature of the conversations - on the US side, anyway.

The more these idiots cry and whine about "leaks," the deeper the river gets!!!

[sunonmars]

2. I smell Reince in this.....there have been rumors he's dropping info.

[yallerdawg]

4. There is nothing more damaging...

than a disgruntled former employee run out of office by a temp!

[sunonmars]

7. and one who access to everything and i mean everything......

[Igel]

11. Years ago was at a school.

New principal came along. Changed things.

A lot of teachers didn't like the changes. They resisted. Complained about the principal to the students, who complained to the parents.

The teachers said it was their jobs, and acted like they had a right to them whatever their boss, hired by the school board, said. They were professionals, and must be free to do as they see fit. I was there a year or two after they left.

Now I work at another school with a whole lot of those teachers who were told, as any other employer would be, that you do what your boss says or you leave. That's the contract they had signed. They really did seem to believe they had a right to the job.

It's sort of a dream, right? Tell your boss to screw himself, you know what you're supposed to do and he should leave instead of you? Doesn't matter what's in the contract.

(Of course, as soon as "doesn't matter what's in the contract" works against the employee, it's a different story.)

Imagine if a bunch of people did this in 2009 because they didn't like Obama.

[Gothmog]

3. This is a major leak

[awesomerwb1]

5. The art of the beg

This is embarrassing beyond belief.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Or.....:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1836683

[SweetieD]

6. I was going to say that I don't remember something like this being released under obama

but I guess if transcripts were released they would have been relatively benign, so I may not remember.

I wonder who released this? My guess is reince.

[SharonClark]

9. Trump is so delusional he thinks Mexico wants to work with him on building the wall?

How many times does he have to be slapped down by the Mexican President before he realizes it!
He's such a LOSER.

[6000eliot]

12. He can ONLY view the world through his own very narrow point of view.

If HE wants something, then of course everyone else wants it too.

[maveric]

10. This is getting more and more like a Will Ferrell movie.

Except now it's not really funny.