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After call with Trump turns testy, Mexico’s president scraps plan to visit White House
Washington Compost ^ | 2/25/2018 | Rucker, Partlow, Miroff

Posted on 02/25/2018 5:13:57 AM PST by EagleUSA

Tentative plans for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump were scuttled this week after a testy call between the two leaders ended in an impasse over Trump’s promised border wall, according to U.S. and Mexican officials. Peña Nieto was eyeing an official trip to Washington this month or in early March, but called off the plan after Trump would not agree to publicly affirm Mexico’s position that it would not fund construction of a border wall that the Mexican people widely consider offensive, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential conversation.

Speaking by phone on Feb. 20, Peña Nieto and Trump devoted a considerable portion of their roughly 50-minute conversation to the wall, and neither man would compromise his position.

(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: borders; caudillos; good; illegals; mexico; mexicriminal; wall
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Mexico if finding it increasingly more difficult to export its poverty to the USA without a Manchurian Candidate in the White House. Choke on it Nieto.....
1 posted on 02/25/2018 5:13:57 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

We do not need another Mexican in this country.


2 posted on 02/25/2018 5:16:20 AM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: EagleUSA

Mexico is realizing we have a real American in the White Hoise.


3 posted on 02/25/2018 5:16:25 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: EagleUSA

Politically, Mexico can’t pay for the wall. Politically, the administration can’t say that they won’t. Stalemate.


4 posted on 02/25/2018 5:16:35 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: EagleUSA

At least the White House staff won’t have to keep counting the silverware, or picking turds out of the trash.


5 posted on 02/25/2018 5:18:12 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....Dirty Bob Mueller)
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To: EagleUSA

And how did the WP know about the contents of a Presidential phone call unless someone had access to the information.
Sounds like someone is tapping phone calls again and feeding the info to the WP.

Last time I checked, this is a felony


6 posted on 02/25/2018 5:18:15 AM PST by Zathras
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To: DoodleDawg

this article made me happy.

more winning.


7 posted on 02/25/2018 5:19:30 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: EagleUSA

“Mexico’s position that it would not fund construction of a border wall that the Mexican people widely consider offensive,”

Good fences make good neighbors.


8 posted on 02/25/2018 5:20:26 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: EagleUSA

Tax remittances to Mexico

Mexico pays for the wall

Screw the bastards


9 posted on 02/25/2018 5:21:10 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: EagleUSA

Good they won’t have to check for missing silverware....


10 posted on 02/25/2018 5:21:28 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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And how did Rucker, Partlow, Miroff acquire this information?

Methinks I see another swamp felony.

5.56mm


11 posted on 02/25/2018 5:24:36 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: EagleUSA

When the Mexican pipsqueak acts this way, President Trump ought to tell him that if he doesn’t pipe down, we are going to send 15,000,000 illegals back to Mexico by the end of his first term. No more billions of dollars flowing into Mexico from their wire transfers, Mexico’s biggest source of revenue. He just might act nicer after that threat sinks in.


12 posted on 02/25/2018 5:24:56 AM PST by txrefugee
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And how did the WP know about the contents of a Presidential phone call unless someone had access to the information.

Presidents don't make these phone calls alone, on either side. Someone in the room in the White House or in Mexico leaked. Or told someone who leaked. My money is that the leak came from south of the border. Looks better politically for Nieto Pena.

13 posted on 02/25/2018 5:25:03 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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a border wall that the Mexican people widely consider offensive That is funny considering that they have a border wall on their southern border.
14 posted on 02/25/2018 5:25:14 AM PST by Xenodamus (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -TJ)
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To: EagleUSA

“”””” said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential conversation”””””””””

So you are reporting on a confidential conversation. Sure, if you think so.

In a previous world we used to call that gossip.


15 posted on 02/25/2018 5:25:42 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: T-Bone Texan

my thoughts exactly


16 posted on 02/25/2018 5:28:17 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: EagleUSA

Trump should say “We’re going to start showing your border the same respect you show ours. The 4th Infantry Division will be rolling across for spring break.’


17 posted on 02/25/2018 5:36:17 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: EagleUSA

And what is he doing to thwart illegal immingeation in his own country vs his government’s assistence in aiding those who seek to illegally enter the US?


18 posted on 02/25/2018 5:37:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: DoodleDawg

So I guess we need to proclaim your boy, Obama, as king forever and go on to skittles and unicorns, eh?


19 posted on 02/25/2018 5:40:49 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Build Kates Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: EagleUSA

Read the article, both the US and Mexico state relations are BETTER than under Obama or Bush, and they are working together on all issues. That’s hidden in the article. PAYING for the wall just happens to be a hot potato issue. They agree on building it.


20 posted on 02/25/2018 5:40:50 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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