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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVicente Fox: ‘I really apologize for Trump’s Mexico visit-Trump Using Mexico to push sinking polls'
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Donald Trump in Mexico City on Wednesday, former President Vicente Fox said, decrying the Republican nominees visit as opportunistic and a political stunt while apologizing on behalf of the country for the presidents invitation.
Trump is using Mexico, is using President Peña to push his sinking poll numbers, Fox said in an interview with CNNs New Day hours ahead of the scheduled meeting in the Mexican capital.
If Peña Nieto is seen as going soft on the businessman, Fox warned, it will hurt him greatly.
He will even be considered like a traitor because we dont accept to be offended, he added, remarking, I think this is a big mistake on the part of President Peña.
Fox rejected the notion that the trip could improve the standing of either Trump or the sitting Mexican president among Mexicans.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-mexico-visit-vicente-fox-227582
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexicans-are-angry-at-their-own-president-for-meeting-trump/2016/08/31/aea65ac9-8ccd-4dc6-a4b7-7480501190c4_story.html?postshare=2451472660545696&tid=ss_tw
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/771023579924226049
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Fox also said, paraphrase (snark) "NO, we are not going to pay for the fuc.ing Wall."
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Don't they have scorpions there?