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| Mexico's Peña Nieto Suffers PR Disaster From Trump Meeting |
| 2016-09-03 |
| [FinancialTimes] Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto scrambled on Thursday to control the fallout from a meeting with Donald Trump that left him looking like a pawn in the US Republican presidential candidate’s campaign over illegal immigration. If the president had been hoping that his invitation to a man he brands a "threat" to the countries’ relations would change Mr Trump's stance over immigration -- which includes building a wall along the US-Mexico border -- then his plan failed. Hours after their meeting in Mexico City on Wednesday, Mr Trump at a speech in Arizona vowed "no amnesty" for immigrants and maintained his insistence that Mexico would pay to barricade the border if he won the White House. "Trump did whatever he liked with Enrique Peña Nieto, who gave a brilliant demonstration of his weakness," said Sergio Aguayo, a political commentator. |
| Posted by:Troo Cunservatizm, Inc. |
| #10 Wonder how many of the commentators are from Univision. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-03 23:29 |
| #9 It's strange how Obama doesn't seem to be able to do this kind of thing. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-09-03 19:45 |
| #8 Funny. All I heard is how Trump got owned. I guess Nieto was expected to get at least a sound bite, if not a full clip, for a political ad. Trumps slugging percentage up and ERA down, coming into the playoffs. *btw, someone told me the first debate is not a debate, but each come out and answer a series of questions, that can't possibly be true is it? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-09-03 19:32 |
| #7 He made that brash offer to meet and was unprepared when Trump (alone) took it. Trump's best week in a long time. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-09-03 19:08 |
| #6 Fuck that noise. Make it 10 to 15% - enough to rake in a good amount of cash, not enough to encourage other methods of sending money to Mexico on a large scale. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-09-03 13:35 |
| #5 Like I've said previously, a $1.00 per transaction surcharge on WESTERN UNION money transfers to Mexico would probably build and sustain a handsome structure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-03 12:03 |
| #4 "Disaster" is in the eye of the beholder. For Trump, it was a success. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-09-03 11:36 |
| #3 MSM will then ignore what they said when President Trump first speaks to this Mexican about the wall. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-09-03 10:54 |
| #2 Seems like the usual loud mouths to me. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-03 10:15 |
| #1 The current POTUS looks like a pawn of froeign politicians all the time, that never seems to bother about half the electorate. What's the big deal? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-09-03 06:47 |