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President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had forced the president of Mexico to let us into the country to help fight drug cartels, an idea that she briefly rejected.
Mr. Trump told reporters who with him on board Air Force one of Palm Beach, Fla., To Washington that it was ‘true’ that he had made the push with President Claudia Sheinbaum. The proposal, first reported At the Wall Street Journal last week came at the end of a long phone call between the two leaders on April 16, the magazine said.
Mrs. Sheinbaum has also confirmed that Mr Trump made the suggestion and that she rejected it. Mexico and the United States can ‘collaborate’, she remembered that she told him, but ‘with you on your territory and ours in our’.
Mr. Trump said he proposed the idea because the cartels are “terrible people who have killed and have been to people left and right – they have earned a fortune with selling drugs and destroying our people.”
He said: “If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go inside and do it. I told her. I would be honored to go inside. The cartels try to destroy our country. They are bad.”
He said, “The president of Mexico is a sweet woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think right.”
Mr. Trump has had a better working relationship with Mrs. Sheinbaum than with the leaders of Canada. But the relationships with both neighboring countries are tense about trade and immigration.
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