BLITZER: The spokesperson for the current president of Mexico says that will never happen. So I mean it’s not taking the stick and attacking everybody, attacking the Pope, attacking the Mexicans, attacking the Muslims, attacking women, attacking migrants.
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Fox joins former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who told CNBC earlier this month: “Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall!”
Mexican officials see Trump’s calls for tariffs on cars made in Mexico and his giant wall as a threat to the thriving trade that millions of jobs in both countries depend on.
Longtime Republican operative and Fox News commentator Karl Rove was forced to apologize for a tweet during the debate that incorrectly posited that the southern and northern borders the USA shares are of comparable length, although Trump’s math was also erroneous – albeit closer to the mark.
At Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate, Trump responded: “The wall just got 10 feet taller”. “I’m not exaggerating when I say Trump is an embarrassment to his country”.
Remember when he used a Yiddish swear word not so long ago, then vehemently defended himself, claiming that it wasn’t a dirty word at all? “I saw him use the word that he used”. “I would not build a wall on the Canadian border”. If he’s going to tax automobiles coming from Mexico with the idea that he’s saving jobs for the United States, the only thing that he’s going to do is to take Ford Motor Company, GM and Chrysler to bankruptcy again. “He should pay for it. He’s got the money”, Mexico’s former leader said. The linguist and academic Noam Chomsky said in an interview with Alternet that the present conditions of American society mirror those that led to Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the 1930s.
“Such a cute soundbite”, Trump shot back.
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“I’m optimistic that people will stand up for themselves and vote in accordance to their values and their views”, she said.
