He spoke hours after Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told Trump in a face-to-face meeting in Mexico City that Mexico would not pay for it.
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In Phoenix, Trump responded to Peña Nieto, saying, “Mexico will pay for the wall, believe me – 100 percent – they don’t know it yet, but they will pay for the wall”.
“Pretty much any group that’s come into this country that has made our nation such a fantastic nation – they faced a few people who were saying bad things about them, who said ‘no Irish need apply”, said Kaine.
Paine said Wednesday night’s speech has him ready to vote Trump in November.
Alluding to Peña Nieto’s real-life tweet that he told Trump Mexico wouldn’t pay for a border wall, Borowitz said el presidente “tweeted out a photo of himself seated at a table with an aggrieved-looking Trump, who appears to be placing an American Express card on top of a restaurant check”.
Even for Trump – who has made an art of straddling both sides of an issue and playing to the preferences of the audience he’s standing before – the political whiplash was astounding.
“His policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing”, Pena Nieto said.
At the campaign event later on Thursday, a quick meet-and-greet at a volunteer office here in Dover, state Democratic chair Raymond Buckley introduced Kaine by calling Trump’s speech “absolutely shameful, absolutely shameful”, he said with a grave look. “Then he flew back and boy, when he got back here – ‘We’re gonna make Mexico do this!'” Kaine bellowed, imitating Trump.
Mexico’s president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the U.S. presidential hopefuls anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric. “[W] e’re disappointed. We feel misled”.
“You got to respect people’s ability to act according to their conscience”, Kaine said.
By the time Trump took the stage in Phoenix, any expectations for a softer immigration position or a more restrained candidate were squashed.
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The Democrats’ immigration policy is “very different from the division and deportation nation strategy of Donald Trump”, he added. We’ve been very clear.
