Sen. Van Hollen on ‘Margarita Gate’: ‘Neither of Us Touched the Drinks that Were in Front of Us’

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VAN HOLLEN: “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 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 me — 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.”