- Trump met the Mexican president Wednesday for a private meeting
- Hillary Clinton said Trump 'choked' when he didn't raise his wall proposal
- She made the remarks in both Cleveland and Illinois on Monday
- And Bill Clinton said Trump 'damaged America' with the trip
- He accused Trump of 'dumping on' Mexico as soon as he left the country
- Trump admitted not discussing his idea to make Mexico pay for a wall
- But the Mexican president claims he told Trump he wouldn't pay for it
Hillary and Bill Clinton slammed Donald Trump Monday for 'creating a diplomatic incident' and 'damaging America' with last week's meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
After the meeting, which took place in Mexico Wednesday, Trump told press that he and Nieto had not discussed his long-promised plan to make Mexico pay for a wall between itself and the USA.
'He didn't raise it, so he did choke. He didn't know how to even communicate effectively with a head of state. And I think that's a pretty clear outcome from that trip,' Hillary Clinton told ABC Monday.
'Incident': Hillary Clinton (pictured at a Cleveland, Ohio rally Monday) says Donald Trump's visit to Mexico last week caused a 'diplomatic incident'
'Choked': Clinton says Trump 'choked' when he - by his own admission - didn't bring up his proposed wall during his meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (left)
'Damaging': Bill Clinton (pictured campaigning in Detroit Monday) said Trump 'damaged America' when he told supporters on returning to US that he would make Nieto pay for the wall
Clinton repeated her remarks in Illinois on Monday evening, saying: 'He couldn't even bring himself to tell the president of Mexico one of his very few policy demands.'
And Bill Clinton, who was campaigning for his wife in Detroit, was similarly disparaging about Trump - particularly his rally in Arizona immediately after the Mexico visit, in which he once again promised to make Mexico pay for the wall.
'I've had that job,' the former president said, according to ABC. '(Trump's visit) damaged America and every serious country in the world.
'You cannot be the leader of a country, go down and be nice to people and then come home and dump on them for your own political benefit.'
They weren't the only ones getting digs in at Trump for his visit. Senator Tim Kaine, who was also taking part in the ABC interview with Hillary Clinton, also criticized the Republican candidate.
He said: 'If you're gonna cave when you're with an ally, and Mexico's an ally, what are you gonna do when you're with an adversary?'
'You shouldn't leave the safety of America and our diplomacy in the hands of a rookie who, on his one visit with a foreign leader, has already created kind of an international embarrassment for us,' he continued.
Denial: Nieto himself denied Trump's claim, saying: 'At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall'
The Clintons' remarks take at face value Trump's claim that he did not discuss his proposed wall with Nieto.
But Nieto himself denied Trump's claim on Twitter after their meeting, saying in Spanish: 'At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.'
Hillary Clinton also told ABC that she would not accept Nieto's invitation to visit Mexico herself, saying she would rather focus on the US.
'Caving': Senator Tim Kaine, who was with Clinton during the interview added that if Trump 'caved in' with an ally, he couldn't be trusted to stand up to an enemy
#1: Hondo68 To: cranky (#0)
That pic above looks fake, photoshopped.
Hondo68 posted on 2016-09-05 23:11:54 Reply Private Reply
#2: cranky To: hondo68 (#1)
*lol*
cranky posted on 2016-09-05 23:15:11 Reply Private Reply
#3: Fred Mertz To: hondo68 (#1)
I think so too. He has seven fingers.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-09-05 23:17:06 Reply Private Reply
#4: rlk To: cranky (#0)
The people who caused a diplomatic incident are the ones who conspired with Mexico to allow 50,000,000 invaders into this country.
rlk posted on 2016-09-06 00:08:08 Reply Private Reply
#5: redleghunter To: cranky (#0)
International incident? I guess Hillary forgot about Benghazi.
redleghunter posted on 2016-09-06 00:43:23 Reply Private Reply
#6: rlk To: redleghunter (#5)
That's old business. Hillary is moving foreward, not backward.
rlk posted on 2016-09-06 01:06:33 Reply Private Reply
#7: misterwhite To: cranky (#0)
There you go. Obviously there was nothing TO discuss about the wall. Nevertheless, Trump returned from that visit and said Mexico WILL pay. I believe Trump.
As an aside, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took that hard-line stance at a time when everyone thought Trump was 'softening' his immigration position. Shows how the world treats a perceived weak leader -- they double down.
misterwhite posted on 2016-09-06 08:42:07 Reply Private Reply
#8: cranky To: redleghunter (#5)
Talk about the pot calling the ketlte black.
But how clintonesque: blaming others for what they themselves have done.
cranky posted on 2016-09-06 09:23:03 Reply Private Reply