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Donald Trump announces surprise meeting with Mexican president
By Mark Preston and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 11:05 PM ET, Tue August 30, 2016
(CNN)Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he will meet Wednesday with the President of Mexico just hours before he is set to deliver a speech focused on immigration policy."I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow," Trump tweeted as reports swirled that Trump was mulling a last-minute trip to Mexico.
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I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow.
7:33 PM - 30 Aug 2016
The office of the Mexican President confirmed in a tweet late Tuesday night that Trump had accepted Peña Nieto's invitation and that the two will meet privately on Wednesday.
"In the past days, the President @EPN invited both U.S. presidential candidates to a dialogue on the bilateral relations between Mexico and the United States. Mr. @realDonaldTrump has accepted the invitation and will meet tomorrow in private with the President @EPN."
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El Señor @realDonaldTrump ha aceptado esta invitación y se reunirá mañana en privado con el Presidente @EPN.
7:38 PM - 30 Aug 2016
A meeting between Trump and Peña Nieto would be extraordinary, given Trump's continued pledges to build a wall on the border with Mexico and make Mexico pay for it. Trump has also stoked fierce criticism in Mexico and in the Hispanic community at large for his at-times inflammatory rhetoric in discussing illegal immigration.
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The Washington Post first reported the news earlier Tuesday evening.
The potential visit follows months of warring words between Trump and Mexico's leaders, including when Peña Nieto compared Trump to brutal dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Trump in the early months of his campaign also leveled unfounded accusations that the Mexican government was intentionally sending its unwanted citizens across the border and into the United States
But both Trump and Nieto have publicly expressed a willingness in recent weeks to meet with one another.
"Mrs. Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump, I would like to express to both of them my greatest respect, my deepest respect. And from right now, I propose going into a frank, open dialogue with whomever is elected," Nieto said in July during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Criminals and 'rapists'
But if Trump and Peña Nieto were to meet, they would have their differences to discuss.
Trump launched his presidential campaign last summer in controversy by characterizing undocumented Mexican immigrants as criminals and "rapists" and accused the Mexican government of "sending people that have lots of problems" into the US.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," he said.
The wall
And Peña Nieto has repeatedly asserted that his country will not pay for the border wall Trump plans to build on the border between their two countries.
And in a March interview, Peña Nieto compared Trump's "strident rhetoric" to Hitler and Mussolini's.
"That's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in. They took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps," the Mexican president said, according to Reuters.
Peña Nieto explained those comments during a news conference in June.
"Hitler, Mussolini, we all know the result," he said, according to Reuters. "It was only a call for reflection and for recognition, so that we bear in mind what we have achieved and the great deal still to achieve."
Peña Nieto added that the world is at times "presented with political actors and political leaders who assume populist and demagogic positions."
While Trump has wavered in the last week on whether he will seek to deport all the undocumented immigrants living in the US back to their countries, he has stuck by his pledge to build a wall on the border with Mexico and make the country pay for it.
Trump has previously said he would pay for the wall by leveraging Mexico's economic gains through its trade with the US. He has also threatened to withhold remittance payments immigrants in the US send to relatives in Mexico and increasing fees for Mexican visa applicants.
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LOL!! So Mexican President is reaching out to Trump for a private sit down meeting? Why? Oh I know so he can come out and lie to Univision about what Trump says in the meeting. Or he thinks Trump is going to win and wants to get a head start on figuring out how Mexico is going to pay for the wall and start creating its own jobs instead of stealing ours. Or maybe he wants to threaten Trump and tell him he's going hurt him if he doesn't stop talking about building the wall and fixing NAFTA. Or maybe he just wants to start whining early.
Any other ideas? That's all I could think of.
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Good grief!! The man is a Machine. Multiple fund-raising events in the morning in California. A trip to Mexico in the afternoon to have stressful contentious discussions with the President of a problem country. A major major speech on his signature issue, immigration, that I'm sure will be nationally televised in Phoenix, Arizona at 6 pm.Quote:
Trump is scheduled to hold fundraisers Wednesday morning in California and deliver his immigration speech in the evening at the Phoenix Convention Center. His trip to Mexico, should it occur, would come between his events.
Whew!!
University: Mexican president copied texts in thesis
Mexico Star - Aug 29, 2016
MEXICO CITY – The university that granted Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto a law degree in 1991 says he copied texts and ideas without crediting their authors in his thesis. The PanAmerican University said Sunday that Pena Nieto's failure to ...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump-Nieto Meeting Confirmed — It’s On
GOP nominee to make historic campaign trip to Mexico Wednesday
by Jon Conradi | Updated 31 Aug 2016 at 12:01 AM
LifeZette has confirmed that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Sources, that include Mexican officials involved in the planning of the visit, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated the meeting would cover a broad variety of topics ranging from trade to security to immigration and the contentious issue of border enforcement.
It is expected that Trump advisor and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, along with high-ranking Mexican officials, will attend the meeting.
The meeting will occur, despite concerns from both Mexican security services and the U.S. Secret Service.
Officials expect the two leaders to make some statement following the meeting, but do not expect a full press conference.
The trip is particularly historic for Trump in that no previous non-incumbent presidential nominee of a major party has ever travelled to Mexico as part of his campaign.
The stakes for both Donald Trump and the Mexican president are high.
For Nieto, the meeting represents a tremendous opportunity to offer Trump, the potential next President of the United States, an olive branch. Nieto has made negative comments about Trump in the past, including a suggestion Trump was like a fascist dictator. The meeting will offer Nieto the chance to clear the deck with the potential next leader of a nation on which his own is almost entirely economically reliant -- and earn goodwill for himself and his country among Trump supporters.
For Trump, the historic meeting comes at a time when the GOP nominee is ramping up a high-stakes bid to win over support from traditionally Democratic minority voters in the United States.
"Republican presidential nominees usually aren’t bold enough to go into communities of color and take the case right to them, and compete for all ears and compete for all votes," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said in an August 28 interview with ABC, "They’ve been afraid to do that. So, Mr. Trump deserves credit for at least taking the case directly to the people."
Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson laid out the key objectives Trump is pursuing in his outreach to minority communities.
"He wants to find out from a lot of different sources what people perceive the problems to be and what they perceive the solutions to be," Carson said in an interview with Michel Martin on NPR. "He also wants to hear about things that have effectively moved people out of the position of dependency and put them on a ladder to success."
Tying the ecomic message geared towards minority voters into the campaign's overall theme Carson said, "you cannot be great if you have large pockets of people who are failing."
A new report from Gallup indicates Trump's effort may be finding success with U.S.-born Hispanic voters.
The analysis of found Hispanics who were born in the United States, those who constitute most of the Hispanic demographic's total voters, only find view Clinton more favorably than Trump by a 14-point margin. To put that in context, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic vote by a whopping 44 percent.
"Both parties have done nothing for the middle class, but more specifically under the Obama administration Latinos, African-Americans, and the middle class have done worse under Democratic policy," said Jorge Herrera, one of the directors of #LatinosForTrump, in an Aug. 25 interview with LifeZette. "Hillary Clinton will be more of the same. Donald Trump is the only one speaking of the need to uplift Hispanics and all others economically."
Trump certainly has credibility to speak on how to create jobs, including for minorities.
It's hard to know for certain exactly how many Hispanics Donald Trump has employed throughout his business career but an analysis from CNN Money found Trump is likely responsible for creating at least 34,000 jobs -- Trump has suggested many of those positions have been held by Hispanics.
"I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent," Trump said in a June 7 statement.
Of course Trump, waylaid by constant negative media coverage and hyperbolic attacks of racism, still faces a steep climb to pull close to even with Clinton among Hispanic voters.
But the opportunity presented by meeting with Nieto could be a game-changer.
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans alike could give Trump a second look after a strong show of respect for the nation of Mexico and a cleanly pulled-off meeting.
A serious, substantive, and respectful meeting with Nieto, also offers Trump the chance reassure skeptical undecided voters of his presidential temperament.
Of course first Trump will have to carefully navigate every moment both ahead of and after the meeting as the press corp will be rabidly looking for a chance to blow up the big moment.
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It is expected that Trump advisor and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, along with high-ranking Mexican officials, will attend the meeting.
The meeting will occur, despite concerns from both Mexican security services and the U.S. Secret Service...
Oh good! The whole crew will be in the meeting. Fantastic!!
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I hope everyone who goes south returns safely.
I would not want to be responsible for security on this trip.
This trip may highlight the deteriorating relationship between Americans and the Mexican people. They want to tell our candidate for President he is "not welcome" when he is responding to an invitation from their President, we need to tell Mexicans, they are "not welcome" when they enter the US in violation of US immigration law or defend those who do.
I just saw an interview with a Hillary Surrogate, Maria Cardonna telling in forceful terms what the Mexican President needs to do to put Trump down. Think about that for a minute. This is the brilliance behind the meeting. It will expose the preference of Hillary and the Democratic Party to help and encourage Mexico at the expense of the US and our citizens. And out of the mouth of Ashleigh Banfield, CNN, she says to the Trump Surrogate, "illegal aliens are here illegally so by definition they are criminals", trying to press the Trump Surrogate to say they'll all be deported or they'll all be given amnesty.
This is going to work out quite well, I think.
by ALEX SWOYER
31 Aug 2016
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Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox is bashing Donald Trump’s visit with Mexico’s current President Enrique Peña Nieto, ahead of the Republican nominee’s speech on immigration in Pheonix, Arizona.
“I don’t understand what’s going on here, and I really apologize for our president taking this step forward,” Fox stated, expressing criticism of Nieto for agreeing to Trump’s visit to Mexico. “I really expect from him, as all 130 million Mexicans, all of our great brother Mexicans in the United States, an explanation from both, from President Peña and Trump himself.”
Trump reacted to Fox’s criticism on Twitter Wednesday morning, pointing out that Fox had previously invited Trump to Mexico in May.
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Former President Vicente Fox, who is railing against my visit to Mexico today, also invited me when he apologized for using the "f bomb."
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During an interview with Breitbart News roughly three months ago in California, Fox extended an invitation to Trump to visit Mexico after he apologized for using vulgar language against Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the southern border.
“I apologize. Forgiveness is one of the greatest qualities that human beings have, is the quality of a compassionate leader. You have to be humble. You have to be compassionate. You have to love thy neighbor,” Fox stated in May during an interview with Breitbart News at the J.W. Marriott in Santa Monica, California.
“I don’t think he should follow the strategy of attacking others, offending others, to get to his purpose. There are other ways and means of doing it,” Fox stated at the time. “I invite him to come to Mexico and to see what Mexico is all about.”
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The Mexican government and people like Vincente Fox of former governments are apoplectic right now. They don't know what end is up or what to do about it. They are exposing their lack of real hospitality, displaying their hatred for America unless they're ripping US off in some fashion, this will not only create turmoil in their political system at their own hand, it will incite anti-American displays and protests, and Americans will turn their backs on Mexico as tourist destination as well as possible business destinations.
The Mexicans have created a situation that is so unfavorable to American safety, security and interests that they have stepped in their own mess, walked straight into a trap, and will "GLUB GLUB" in their own quicksand.
To extend phony invitations that you don't really mean and then mistreat, abuse or protest someone who kindly accepts it, just shows how despicable most of the Mexican Elites really are. We'll see if they show their true colors during the visit.
Trump takes risky gamble with Mexico trip
The nominee's campaign is betting the trip will look presidential. But it could go very wrong.
By KYLE CHENEY and BEN SCHRECKINGER
08/30/16 10:07 PM EDT
Updated 08/30/16 11:58 AM EDT
Donald Trump has spent years trashing Mexico as a corrupt enemy of the United States, whose government has looked the other way as drug dealers and criminals stream across the border. On Wednesday, he’ll step off a plane in Mexico City and confront a government and people that have followed his every utterance — and rejected them.
Trump’s meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is one of the greatest gambles of the election for Trump. It comes as he trails in most polls and prepares to deliver a speech expected to repackage — and perhaps walk back — his controversial immigration policies after a year of calling for mass deportations and a 2,000-mile border wall with Mexico. He’ll return from the trip in the evening and deliver his immigration address in Phoenix.
“If he can go down there and look statesmanlike while at the same time being firm for what he stands for, then I think it helps shape people’s perceptions of him as to what he would be like if he’s actually president,” said Steve Munisteri, a Republican consultant and former chairman of the Texas GOP. “This is a chance for him to demonstrate to the American people what it would be like to have Trump as president, what it would be like if he was dealing with foreign leaders.”
Republicans see the gambit as a high-risk, high-reward opportunity to change the terms of the election — but only if Trump can demonstrate presidential demeanor on the international stage. To that end, the joint press conference he intends to hold with Peña Nieto afterward offers a potential glimpse into what a Trump bilateral meeting would look like.
"He wants to establish a conversation with a neighboring country, a leader. And also to discuss the common problems and challenges that our country is facing," said Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, on Wednesday morning.
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Trump reminds Vicente Fox about his own invitation
By NICK GASS
It could be a hard sell in a country that Trump has long blamed for America’s illegal immigration problems. Over the years Trump – primarily on Twitter – has labeled Mexico an “enemy,” urged an American boycott, threatened to deduct foreign aid and feuded with former Mexican presidents about his plans to build a border wall.
After hosting the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant in Mexico, Trump claimed a local businessman owed him money and that the Mexican court system had failed to force him to pay.
“Mexico is not a U.S. friend,” he tweeted last year, just before announcing his presidential bid.
Charlie Spies, a veteran GOP lawyer, sees the move as a simple play for swing-state white voters, rather than an attempt to appeal to minorities.
“Winning the Hispanic vote for Donald Trump is likely a lost cause, but the Caucasian swing voters he needs to be successful in target states will likely see this trip to Mexico as an important outreach effort,” he said. “He is doing a speech today that purports to outline an immigration policy that’s really a no win situation for him because he demagogued the issue for so long … Even if the president embarrasses him, and/or Trump loses his cool, no matter what happens, the visual of him on stage with a world leader elevates him.”
One complication already threatens to cloud Trump's trip. Though Conway insisted Trump and Nieto would take questions from Mexican and American reporters, Trump's traveling press corps was left stranded in Arizona, a break from precedent in modern presidential campaigns.
"Trump is setting a distressing precedent today," tweeted the Associated Press' Jill Colvin, a member of the Trump press corps.
Others noted that Trump did provide for press to accompany him on his last international trip: a visit to his golf course in Scotland.
Peña Nieto invited both Trump and Hillary Clinton last week, and the Trump campaign scrambled to pull Wednesday’s meeting together, according to a person briefed by a senior Trump adviser.
“Trump realized this would be a brilliant time to do it and is trying to pull it together last minute,” a person close to the campaign who had been briefed by a campaign staffer said Tuesday night. “Would be a major power play. It’s like he’s already negotiating on behalf of America.”
The person suggested that the meeting could, for example, allow Trump to agree to deport only criminals if the Mexican president offered some sort of concession in return.
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Mexico rages against Trump visit
By NICK GASS
Mexican political leaders, including former President Vicente Fox, questioned why Peña Nieto would “legitimize” Trump by hosting him at the presidential palace. It’s raised the prospect that Peña Nieto, himself struggling amid unpopularity, could attempt to upstage Trump and denounce his anti-Mexico rhetoric.
“The most logical reason he would do this is so he could forcefully denounce Trump and try to reinforce his – elevate his standing among the Mexican voters,” Spies said.” If he doesn’t do that, then I agree with the criticism of people like former President Fox who believe that this is an honor that Donald Trump has not earned.”
After Trump announced the meeting, Peña Nieto confirmed it on Twitter, explaining in Spanish, "I believe in dialogue to promote the interests of Mexico in the world." The meeting is scheduled to take place at the presidential palace in Mexico City, the New York Times reported.
Few political leaders in Mexico welcomed Trump's visit. A former Mexican ambassador to the United States, Miguel Basañez Ebergenyi, tweeted that Trump presents the greatest danger to the Mexico-U.S. relationship in the past 50 years. "I deeply regret the invitation," he wrote.
Conway, however, pronounced the meeting a "decisive presidential move," while taking a shot at Clinton for not also accepting the invitation.
"We’re just happy the president invited him," Conway told NBC's "Today" on Wednesday, adding, "I mean, I feel like she keeps following the leader here."
Corey Lewandowski, who held Conway's title until being fired amid a June leadership shakeup but still talks with Trump regularly, similarly called the Mexico visit "leadership."
Lewandowski suggested that his former boss could change the tenor of his relationship with Mexico as a result of the trip.
"Look, it’s very, very possible that Mr. Trump goes down there, meets the president, says, hey, look, we have more things in common than we have apart. Let's find a way that in 69 days from today when I’m elected president of the United States we can work together," Lewandowski said.
Arguing that Trump would not back away from his position on the wall, Lewandowski said that proposal was an unbreakable starting point of negotiation.
"We can work together, we can find a way that Mexico can find a way to start paying for that wall, but it is going to be built," Lewandowski continued. "It's 2,000 miles. We don't need to build a wall all 2,000 miles. Maybe it’s 1,100 miles, because [of] the topography of the border. But that wall is going to get built. He's never deviated from it. And the American people aren’t going to pay for it."
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Lewandowski: Trump's Mexico visit could change relations
By NICK GASS
It is traditional for major party presidential nominees to travel to foreign countries to demonstrate their ability to perform on a world stage, but neither candidate has put together a traditional sojourn abroad this year. In June, Trump traveled to his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland and held press conferences, which were designed largely to promote the properties there, but he did not hold meetings with local leaders or other political events. Late last year, Trump canceled plans to visit Israel amid reports that it would provoke unrest among Palestinians and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was uninterested in meeting with him.
Clinton, who traveled the world more extensively than any prior secretary of state during her tenure in the Obama administration, has not announced plans for any campaign trips abroad.
In a statement, Clinton's campaign reiterated some of Trump's previous statements about Mexicans and immigration, including calling some Mexicans "rapists."
"What ultimately matters is what Donald Trump says to voters in Arizona, not Mexico, and whether he remains committed to the splitting up of families and deportation of millions," Clinton's campaign said.
Such trips traditionally are high-stakes affairs that carry both risks and opportunities. In 2008, images of the throngs of Germans who cheered Barack Obama as he spoke at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate helped solidify his image at home as a transcendent figure. In 2012, Mitt Romney’s summer trip to Europe was marred by multiple memorable gaffes, including his criticism of London’s performance as a summer Olympics host.
But just hours before the meeting is set to take place, Trump, who has rarely shied from risk in this campaign, tweeted, “I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow.”
Because Mexico relies heavily on trade with United States and remittances from Mexican citizens living in the U.S., Trump’s vows to deport undocumented immigrants and adopt more protectionist trade policies have shaken the Mexican government.
In March, Peña Nieto compared Trump’s rhetoric to that of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, but he has since struck a more conciliatory tone, acknowledging that he will have to work with Trump if the Republican nominee is elected president.
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Mr. Fox, a voluble presence on Twitter in his own right, retorted that he had urged Mr. Trump to visit Mexico to apologize for disrespecting the country. “Stop lying!” Mr. Fox shot back. “Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect.” . . .
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Vincente Fox needs to show US citizens some respect, our people are not yours to rob, and attacking our candidate for President is disrespecting the voters who elected him our candidate to be President. Furthermore, telling Trump to stop lying when he hasn't lied to begin with an insult, especially when you, Vincente, have lied like a dog for 30 years to rob the American People and force your failures and ne'er do wells into our society so yours is free of them.Quote:
Mr. Fox, a voluble presence on Twitter in his own right, retorted that he had urged Mr. Trump to visit Mexico to apologize for disrespecting the country. “Stop lying!” Mr. Fox shot back. “Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect.” . . .
Americans know the truth because we see and pay for it every single day.
'Political stunt': Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox rips Donald Trump’s trip to Mexico
Colin Campbell Deputy Politics Editor
August 31, 2016
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox didn’t hold back on Wednesday when asked on CNN about Donald Trump’s surprise visit to Mexico later in the day.
“He is not welcome to Mexico. By 130 million people, we don’t like him. We don’t want him. We reject his message,” Fox said on “New Day.”
He added that Trump’s trip is “nothing more than a political stunt” and that the GOP is using Mexico … to boost his sinking poll numbers.”
Fox is a fierce critic of Trump, who launched his campaign last summer with a speech in which he accused the Mexican government of sending rapists and other criminals across the U.S. border.
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A core part of Trump’s platform has been the construction of a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which he has vowed to make Mexico pay for.
Earlier this year, Fox memorably declared that he wouldn’t “pay for that f***ing wall.” Trump replied to Fox’s profanity by repeatedly telling supporters that “the wall just got 10 feet higher.”
Trump suddenly announced the Mexico trip Tuesday night, and the visit will occur just hours before the mogul gives a major address on immigration policy in Phoenix.
During his Wednesday CNN interview, Fox was also very critical of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
He said Trump’s meeting with the Mexican leader was a “desperate move on both sides.”
“I think the president, Peña, is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Trump. If he’s considered as going soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly. He will even be considered like a traitor,” Fox said.
“I don’t understand what’s going on here,” he later added. “And I really apologize for our president taking this step forward.”
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Peña Nieto defended the meeting on Twitter late Tuesday night. He wrote that he hoped to engage in a dialogue to promote the country’s interests around the world and protect Mexicans living abroad. He also said he invited Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
For his part, Trump responded to Fox’s interview not long after it occurred Wednesday morning. The GOP nominee said Fox also invited him to Mexico during their spat over the wall:
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Former President Vicente Fox, who is railing against my visit to Mexico today, also invited me when he apologized for using the "f bomb."
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by CHARLIE SPIERING
31 Aug 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton criticized her rival Donald Trump for visiting Mexico today, suggesting that it was a “photo op” that lacked genuine leadership.
Citing her experience as Secretary of State, Clinton assured the audience of veterans that she had experience in the “slow hard work” of diplomacy that was required and did “more than a photo op.”
She alluded to Trump’s history of insulting Mexico for over a year, after announcing his run for president.
“People have to get to know that they can count on you, that you won’t say one thing one day and something totally different the next,” she said. “And it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again.”
Clinton who has repeatedly boasted of her miles traveled as Secretary of State, disapproved of Trump’s decision.
“That is not how it works,” she said, after she was over a half an hour late for her speech.
Clinton cited her experience as a Senator during 9/11, and serving as Secretary of State for President Barack Obama during the Seal Team 6 raid on Osama bin Laden. She did not mention, however, her experience on the day of the Benghazi attacks or the disappointing results of the situation in Libya.
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by JOEL B. POLLAK
31 Aug 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton attempted Wednesday to pre-empt Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico later in the day, telling an American Legion convention in Cincinnati Trump could not undo a year of insults in a few hours.
“It certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works,” said Clinton, whose main achievement as Secretary of State was the sheer number of her foreign visits.
The bulk of Clinton’s speech was a confused, incoherent muddle of talking points, at times contradictory. For example, she mocked Trump for calling the military a “disaster” — by which he meant the poor condition of the armed forces — and then called for the U.S. to “modernize” the military, effectively conceding Trump’s point.
At times, Clinton seemed to be arguing for a third term for President Barack Obama, touting his supposed accomplishments in foreign policy, including the Iran deal. She painted a picture of a world, and a nation, in far better shape than in 2009 — a far distance from how most Americans view the direction in which the country is heading. She talked about her role in the Osama bin Laden raid, which was mostly that of an observer — and, of course, made no mention of her role in Libya, or in Benghazi.
The confused tone of the speech, however, suggests that the Clinton campaign does not know how to counter Trump’s visit. Less than a week after she called him a bigot and likened him to the Ku Klux Klan, he will be welcomed by a Mexican leader who once made the same claims but has since backed away from them. While she faces new revelations about her destroyed emails, he is playing the statesman abroad.
Clinton still has her lead in the polls, but what she lacks, dangerously, is a message.
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I watched part of this boring speech and heard her attack on Trump's visit to Mexico. It came off totally lame and stupid. And no one clapped, the audience was not with her on anything, best I could tell.
I don't think the military or veterans are with her. Trump speaks with them tomorrow, we'll see if there's a difference in the audience reaction.
Trump just landed in Mexico. That is a long flight he had today. Wow. Mexico City is almost 1500 miles from Phoenix, and Trump was flying from California after being in Washington State last night, and it was late last night, so he's been on that plane for at least 4 hours already depending on where in California where he had fund-raising events, that he departed from.
He's the Energizer Bunny, no doubt about it. After the meeting in Mexico, he'll have another at least 3 hour flight back to Phoenix for his big immigration speech tonight.