Posted on 04/05/2023 10:44:25 PM PDT by Tipllub
MEXICO CITY, April 5 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said he does not agree with the criminal charges brought against former U.S. President Donald Trump.
"Supposedly legal issues should not be used for electoral, political purposes," Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference. "That's why I don't agree with what they are doing to ex-President Trump."
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Lopez Obrador, who took office in 2018, developed a friendly working relationship with then-counterpart Trump, despite the U.S. president launching his election campaign in 2015 by calling Mexicans rapists and drug runners and promising to make Mexico pay for a border wall.
Lopez Obrador in November publicly called for Twitter to reinstate Trump's then-banned account on the social media platform.
Lopez Obrador's motivations for defending Trump may be personal.
Beginning in 2004, Lopez Obrador, then the mayor of Mexico City and the frontrunner for Mexico's presidential election in 2006, was the subject of a judicial process that he said was a political plot by Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox.
The federal government's ultimately unsuccessful effort to put Lopez Obrador on trial for charges of contempt of court threatened to keep him from running for president.
Lopez Obrador went on to lose the 2006 and 2012 presidential election - results he did not accept, alleging massive voter fraud.
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“ …..despite the U.S. president launching his election campaign in 2015 by calling Mexicans rapists and drug runners and promising to make Mexico pay for a border wall..”
Reuters needs to get it together. Is Brendan O’Boyle an idiot or a lying gossip columnist ?
When even foreign governments recognize a hit job…..
It’s Reuters what do you expect?
As usual, Reuters lies to smear President Trump. He, of course DID NOT call all Mexicans rapists or drug runners. He said they send rapists and drug runners.....as in many of the ILLEGAL ALIENS who come into our country are violent criminals.
There’s no question plenty of those kind of criminals have entered the country illegally. There have been plenty of news stories about violent crimes committed by illegal aliens. Of course, that’s going to happen when you just let everybody in and don’t bother screening them.
Hola !
Even the banana republics are laughing at us
Even the banana republics are laughing at us
We are now a 4th world country.
If Mexico thinks Trump felony charges stink you know it sucks big time democrats show stained palms.
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