The former president of USADonald Trump, assured yesterday Saturday during a rally in Ohio that he threatened the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwith imposing tariffs on imports from the country to achieve a “free” military deployment of 28 thousand soldiers at the border to contain migration.
“I’ve never seen someone bend over like that,” he said. Trump in front of his followers, who celebrated and applauded the former president’s speech.
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“(AMLO) laughs at me when I tell him: ‘We need 28,000 soldiers on the border, for free.’ He looked at me and said ‘free? why would we do that in Mexico?’” Trump said.
The former president assured that before the initial refusal of the president López Obrador for military deployment, he threatened to impose a 25% tariff on imports.
“After that (AMLO) looked at me and said: ‘sir: it would be an honor to have 28,000 soldiers on the border! It would be an honor to have ‘Stay in Mexico‘! We want to have ‘Stay in Mexico!’” Trump assured.
However, the former president Donald Trump assured that he likes the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradordespite its socialist bent.
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“He is a very nice guy. I like him very much. He is a socialist, but I like him, he is one of the socialists that I like,” he said during the rally in Ohio.
Trump made these statements while praising his work as president, and highlighted his work on the border of USA con Mexicowhile criticizing the measure of Joe Biden to end Title 42.
“We built almost 500 beautiful miles of border wall exactly how the border protection agencies wanted,” he boasted.
The former president stressed that this threat to the deployment of soldiers led to “the best numbers” in the history of the border and thanked Mexico.
“These are the reasons why we had the best numbers in the history of the border. Thank you very much Mexico“.