Trump: Venezuela attack "wasn't meant to be a message to Mexico, BUT..."

Trump was asked whether the attack on Venezuela was also designed to send a “message” to Mexico that the United States would no longer tolerate drug trafficking, to which Trump provided a telling response as to what may be his next move.

“It wasn’t meant to be [a message to Mexico], and we’re very friendly with [Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum]; she’s a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico, she’s not running Mexico,” Trump said.

“We could be politically correct and be nice, but no, she’s very frightened of the cartels, they’re running Mexico. I’ve asked her numerous times: ‘would you like us to take out the cartels’ – ‘no, no, no Mr. President, please,’ so we have to do something. We lost 300,000 people in my opinion to drugs, and they come in through the Southern Border. Something’s gonna have to be done with Mexico.”

Trump was not the first person to suggest Sheinbaum may suffer the same fate as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who’s been captured and extradited to face trial in New York. Earlier on Saturday, Trump’s former deputy national security advisor Victoria Coates made a similar suggestion, telling Fox News that Sheinbaum “is probably legitimately concerned” that she “could be subject to this kind of thing.”

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