WOW!… HE’S BACKTRACKING! After President Nayib Bukele caught Van Hollen and Kilmar Garcia enjoying margaritas together, he INSISTS they had nothing to do with it and didn’t touch the drinks!
He says, no, we only touched COFFEE, and he accused El Salvador of planting the drinks.
“Neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us…nobody drank any margaritas…this is the lesson in the lengths that President Bukele will do to deceive people about what’s going on.”
Full statement: “Now I just want to take a moment I hadn’t planned to do this, but as I was landing on the airplane, I got a transcript of some questions the President Trump was asked at the White House today about what I would call Margarita-gate. I don’t know if you guys have been following this, but President Bukele, you know, after I met with Kilmar, did this tweet showing us at a table with these two glasses.
So here’s what happened. When I first sat down with Kilmar, we just had glasses of water on the table. I think maybe some coffee. And as we were talking, one of the government people came over and deposited two other glasses on the table with ice, and I don’t know if it was salt or sugar around the top. But they looked like margaritas, and if you look at the one they put in front of Kilmar, it actually had a little less liquid than the one in front of me, to try to make it look, I assume, like he drank out of it.
Let me just be very clear. Neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us, and if you want to play a little Sherlock Holmes, I’ll tell you how you can know that. So if you look at the video or the picture I sent out from the beginning of our meeting, you’ll see there are no glasses on the table. So you’ll see in later videos they are on the table, but they made a little mistake. For some people, it’s very careful, right? If you sip out of one of those glasses, some of whatever it was, salt or sugar, would disappear. You would see a gap. There’s no gap. Nobody drank any margaritas or sugar water, or whatever it is.
But this is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what’s going on. And it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the President will go to because when he was asked about a reporter about this, he just went along for the ride.”
