Kaine says Trump ‘choked’ in Mexico meeting

1 September 2016, 3:05 pm

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says Donald Trump “choked” by not demanding to Mexico’s president that his country pay for a border wall.

The Republican presidential nominee has made the wall — and Mexico paying for it — a core element in his campaign. Trump said it didn’t come up in his meeting yesterday with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. But Pena Nieto tweeted that he had told Trump that Mexico wouldn’t pay for the wall.

But Kaine tells NBC’s “Today” program that even if Trump’s account is accurate, it shows he “folded under pressure” and “didn’t have the backbone” to discuss the issue with the Mexican president.

“When he’s looking the leader of Mexico in the eye, he can’t bring himself to say it,” Kaine says.