Wall Street Journal
By Daniel Nasaw and Rebecca Ballhaus
February 25, 2016
F-bombs
and irony flew across the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday over the
cantankerous tone of the Republican immigration debate.
Former
Mexican President Vicente Fox dismissed GOP candidate Donald Trump‘s
proposal to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border and bill Mexico City
for the construction.
“I
am not going to pay for that f—ing wall,” Mr. Fox said in a television
interview with Univision and Fusion, describing the New York billionaire
as “egocentric” and
“a crazy guy.”
Mr.
Trump, who has himself not shied from using blue language on the stump,
including an S word and a P word, demanded an apology on Twitter.
“Vicente Fox horribly used
the F word when discussing the wall. He must apologize! If I did that
there would be a uproar!”
There was no apology from Mr. Fox, but there was something of one from Vice President Joe Biden, to the Mexican people.
At
a news conference in Mexico City alongside current Mexican President
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mr. Biden said, “I almost feel obliged to apologize
for some of what my political
colleagues said. It’s a heated campaign season and I just want you to
know, Mr. President, that the most heated rhetoric you’ve heard from
competitors for the nomination for president is not who we are as the
American people. It is not the view that is the
view of the majority of the American people. It’s the exact opposite.
It’s the opposite view.”
Mr.
Biden didn’t name names, but said comments made by “some of the
presidential candidates on the other team” were “dangerous, damaging and
incredibly ill-advised.”
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