AP: Pena Nieto Says He Told Trump Mexico Would Not Pay

FILE - In this July 22, 2016 file photo, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during a news conference with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The university that granted... FILE - In this July 22, 2016 file photo, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during a news conference with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The university that granted Pena Nieto a law degree in 1991 acknowledged on Sunday, Aug. 28, that he copied texts and ideas without crediting their authors in his thesis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) MORE LESS
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MEXICO CITY (AP) —The president of Mexico says Donald Trump wasn’t telling the truth when he described their Wednesday conversation.

Specifically, President Enrique Peña Nieto said that he and Trump did indeed discuss who would pay for construction of a massive wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s the centerpiece of Trump’s immigration plan.

Trump and Peña Nieto met privately in Mexico City on Wednesday afternoon.

When they emerged from the meeting, Trump told reporters they discussed the wall, but not paying for it.

Hours later, Peña Nieto tweeted his version: “At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made clear that Mexico would not pay for the wall.”

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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  1. I’ll wait to see how this all clears out before I state my opinion.

    Sheesh, we all know Trump is a fuh-fuh-fucking liar.

  2. Avatar for anniew anniew says:

    I would have thought EPN knew he was talking with someone that has no problem lying, changing positions and throwing whoever who is near him under the bus.

  3. Come on, now! Trump doesn’t understand Spanish. Or, English, for that matter.

  4. Trump will now threaten to embargo remittances. $538 billion in remittances were logged from a global diaspora in 2014.

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