Donald Trump to El Chapo: Come at Me Bro
Donald Trump offers to take on the drug lord known as El Chapo, on the run from Mexican authorities after a Saturday prison break.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump is a lot of things. He’s a candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. He once hosted a reality show. But who knew he was brave enough to take on one of the most feared drug lords on earth?
Real estate mogul Donald Trump is a lot of things. He’s a candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. He once hosted a reality show. But who knew he was brave enough to take on one of the most feared drug lords on earth?
Two days after Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the notorious and ultraviolent Sinaloa cartel, escaped a Mexican prison using an elaborate underground tunnel, Trump — never short on bold proclamations — began making some noise on Twitter. Apparently, there’s a man out there capable of bringing El Chapo to justice.
That man is Donald Trump.
Can you envision Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton negotiating with 'El Chapo', the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison? ….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
…Trump, however, would kick his ass!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
He didn’t stop there.
Now that the Mexican drug lord escaped from prison, everyone is saying that most of the cocaine etc. coming into the U.S. comes over border!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
The U.S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U.S. citizen because our "leaders" can't say no!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
When will people, and the media, start to apologize to me for my statement, "Mexico is sending….", which turned out to be true? El Chapo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
The joke around town is that I freed El Chapo from the Mexican prison because the timing was so good w/ my statements on border security.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
And apparently Trump has a good idea of where he can find Guzman.
El Chapo comes to the U.S. often thru our border—it's been revealed he has CA drivers license. http://t.co/E7UA3eyP5O
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015
Trump’s tough talk hasn’t been impressing one potential ally: Rupert Murdoch. Taking to Twitter, Murdoch said this about the man who says he’s willing to take on El Chapo:
Mexican immigrants, as with all immigrants, have much lower crime rates than native born. Eg El Paso safest city in U.S. Trump wrong.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) July 12, 2015
Your move, Mr. Trump.
Photo credit: Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images
David Francis was a staff writer at Foreign Policy from 2014-2017.
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