Lopez Obrador "misses" Trump, dislikes Biden, New York Times writes. Here are the reasons
The excerpted passages are from today's New York Times. Wait till you read the reasons why charlatan Lopez Obrador (Mexican far-left President) loves Donald Trump.
Donald Trump took the side of a former defense secretary in Mexico, who was accused of drug trafficking by US prosecutors. Trump called the accusations fake news, and Lopez-Obrador love it:
His government also exonerated a former Mexican defense secretary charged with drug trafficking by American prosecutors, allegations the president said were “fabricated” by investigators who “did not act responsibly.”
Lopez Obrador is worried that Biden will promote...(gasp) labor rights! Oh, and clean energy too:
Behind all those perceived slights is a fear that the Democrats are more likely to intervene to promote labor rights and clean energy, getting in the way of Mr. López Obrador’s ambitious agenda at home, according to two officials in his government who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
“It’s like a dog at the park: He’s gnashing his teeth and threatening you and growling in the hope that you won’t come close,” said Shannon O’Neil, a Mexico expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. “He’s trying to pre-emptively push back against engagement by the incoming Biden administration.”
Lopez Obrador is a media basher, and so is Trump:
On style, too, the leaders were often aligned. Both campaigned on a promise to root out a corrupt elite, won with a coalition of voters disgusted with their country’s establishment and, once in office, painted the media and the opposition as enemies of their movement.
Finally, Lopez Obrador once lost an election (year 2006) and pretended it was stolen. Just like Trump. "AMLO" even staged his own fake inauguration.
Just as Mr. Trump used Twitter to speak directly to his base, Mr. López Obrador takes control of the narrative by holding two-hour news conferences every day at which questions are often asked by sympathetic tabloid reporters or YouTubers.
And in 2006, Mr. López Obrador spent months leveling accusations of fraud after he lost the presidential election, going as far as to hold a fake inauguration for himself in the capital’s central square.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/americas/mexico-trump-amlo.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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