You can continue to believe and employ propaganda if you wish, but the fact is that they were not binding, for other than the ex cathedra teaching of the pope, only the decisions of ecumenical councils (which Hippo, Carthage and Florence were not) have been treated as strictly definitive in the canonical sense, and thus Catholic scholars were able to, and did, hold differing opinions on the canonical status of the Deutros - right into Trent.
Thus if Trent had to respond firmly to "Protestant lies and obfuscations" regarding the Deuterocanon then it had to see to her own house as well. .
Trent settled the matter, apparently after an informal vote of 24 yea, 15 nay, with 16 abstaining (44%, 27%, 29%) as to whether to affirm it as an article of faith with its anathemas on those who dissent from it. Trent confirmed Hippo & Carthage (though that these were exactly the as Trent has been disputed due to the confusing matter of the nomenclature of 1 Esdras). but the point is that the canon was not definitively settled until after the death of Luther in 1546.
And Trent didn’t even get a majority vote on their canon.
That’s really sad.
The point remains that the canon as set forth at Trent is essentially the same as the earlier “Africa” councils.