Below is an excerpt from The Hill:
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he doesn’t believe former President Trump would follow through on his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border because of the two countries’ economic ties.
“Because we understood each other very well. We signed an economic, a commercial agreement that has been favorable for both peoples, for both nations. He knows it. And President Biden, the same,” he said in an interview released Sunday by CBS News’s “60 Minutes.”
When CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi asked López Obrador to respond to those who argue the wall “works,” he said a wall “doesn’t work,” adding he told then-President Trump the same during a phone call.
López Obrador told 60 Minutes that he and Trump had agreed not to talk about the border wall, since they weren’t in agreement on the issue, but said they did discuss it once during a phone call.
“That was the only time and I told him, ‘I am going to send you, Mr. President, some videos of tunnels from Tijuana up to San Diego, that passed right under U.S. Customs.’ He stayed quiet, and then he started laughing and told me, ‘I can’t win with you,’” López Obrador said.
Watch below:
The President of Mexico thinks former President Trump is bluffing when he says that, if elected, he would shut down the U.S. border or build a border wall. https://t.co/A2pf5mhghA pic.twitter.com/sIGnfCdqse
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) March 24, 2024
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he doesn’t believe former President Trump would follow through on his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border because of the two countries’ economic ties. https://t.co/KpCjv84zOu
— The Hill (@thehill) March 25, 2024
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