President Donald Trump told The Daily Caller on Friday that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has refused to accept the help of U.S. troops to target Mexican drug cartels because she is “very scared.”
Asked about his administration’s success with preventing illegal immigrants from crossing the southern border between the United States and Mexico during an interview with The Daily Caller on Friday, Trump told Daily Caller correspondent Reagan Reese, “For the last 90 days, we’ve had nobody, three months. Three months, nobody, zero. And, you know, Democrats do those stats. It’s like zero. It’d be very hard to get it, but for three months, we’ve had nobody. Could be four months now. I mean, I’ve totally solved the border problem.”
Questioned by Reese whether he trusts the Mexican government to secure Mexico’s side of the southern border in light of the danger posed by the drug cartels, Trump said, “So I like the president very much. I think she’s a terrific woman. She’s actually an amazing woman in some, in certain ways, very elegant, beautiful. But Mexico is run by the cartels. It’s run by the cartels.”
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The president explained that while he has offered Sheinbaum the assistance of the U.S. military, “she doesn’t want us to do that.”
Asked why Sheinbaum does not want the U.S. military to help combat the Mexican drug cartels, Trump said, “Because she’s scared.” The president added that Sheinbaum is “very scared.”
Earlier this year, Trump told reporters that Sheinbaum had rejected an offer to have U.S. military troops target Mexican drug cartels.
“She’s so afraid of the cartels she can’t walk,” Trump said at the time. “And I think she’s a lovely woman. The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.”
Fox News reported that Sheinbaum informed Trump at the time that Mexico would “never accept the presence of the United States Army” in its territory.
