White House: Trump's Mexico talk 'lighthearted'

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BY JORDAN FABIAN - 02/02/17 09:38 AM EST

The White House on Thursday confirmed that President Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto he might send the U.S. military across the border to deal with drug cartels and illegal immigration if Mexican authorities do not.

The confirmation comes one day after the White House pushed back on accounts of the conversation, saying reports that Trump “threatened to invade Mexico are false.”

An official told The Associated Press, which on Wednesday published a partial transcript of the conversation, that the remark was meant to be “lighthearted” and came in the context of a "pleasant and constructive” discussion about mutual efforts to fight drug cartels ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317512-white-house-trumps-mexico-talk-lighthearted

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1. Mexican government says Trump did not threaten to send troops

US President allegedly said he would send troops into Mexico to stop 'bad hombres down there' if Mexico did not stop them itself, according to leaked transcript

Charlotte England
3 hours ago

Mexico has denied Donald Trump threatened to send American soldiers into the country during a telephone conversation with his counterpart, President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Such a threat “did not happen during that call,” the Mexican government said in a statement, released on Twitter on Wednesday night.

“I know it with absolute certainty, there was no threat,” a spokesman for Mr Peña Nieto, Eduardo Sanchez, said in a radio interview. “The things that have been said are nonsense and a downright lie” ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-deny-donald-trump-send-troops-over-us-mexico-border-president-enrique-pena-nieto-american-a7558526.html

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2. A lighthearted threat of military invasion?

Trump/Bannon is a terrifying idiot.

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4. Considering the multiple times we have invaded them

and other Latin America countries, i don't see the joke. The equivalent would be the Mexican president joking about 9/11.

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3. Kind of like when St Ronnie suggested WWIII

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6. I remembered the Advanced Placement U.S. History course

receiving criticism for characterizing Reagan's relationship with the USSR as bellicose during his administration. It was funny because these folks also argue the USSR's collapse was due to Reagan's pressure on them. The very definition of being bellicose.

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7. O.K., then fine, we should have never-elected RAYGUN too or impeached him too. n/t

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5. Yeah yeah, we're meant to get numb with every daily outrage until it's all normal and O.K. n/t