President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed reports that he made an offer to send U.S. troops to Mexico to fight the country’s drug cartels, after the Mexican president said she declined the offer.
“It’s true,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “The cartels are trying to destroy our country. They’re evil!”
Trump then suggested that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is being pressured by drug cartels operating in her country after she told an audience over the weekend that she told the U.S. president that Mexico’s “territory is inviolable” and their “sovereignty is inviolable.”
“The president of Mexico is a lovely woman,” Trump said, “but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.”…