Donald Trump demands apology from his critics after escape of El Chapo claiming it is proof his attacks on Mexico are justified as he threatens to kick the drug lord's 'ass'
- Donald Trump continues to speak out over escape of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
- He threatened to kick the drug lord's 'ass' and said his escape proves his anti-Mexican attacks are true
- Trump also demanded an apology from his critics
- Trump has said 'cunning' Mexico offloads criminals and rapists on the U.S.
- Despaired at 'unbelievable corruption' and said 'USA is paying the price'
- Guzman made audacious escape Sunday from prison west of Mexico City
Donald Trump is continuing to talk about the prison escape of the notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, claiming the incident is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with Mexico.
The presidential hopeful, who has spent the past month viciously attacking Mexico as he pushes for immigration reform, also said that if he had the chance he would kick El Chapo's ass.
He is also demanding an apology from the media and his critics, saying that this proves his stance on Mexico was accurate and appropriate.
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On the attack: Donald Trump (speaking above in Phoenix on Saturday) is claiming the escape of drug lord El Chapo proves his attacks on Mexico are true
'Can you envision Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton negotiating with 'El Chapo', the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison?' wrote Trump on Twitter.
He then added; 'Trump, however, would kick his ass!'
Trump did not stop there either, later writing; '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!'
That comment was likely a reference to President Obama's executive action on immigration in 2014, which made it easier for undocumented immigrants to stay.
Then, early Monday, he weighed in again, writing; '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.....likewise, billions of dollars gets brought into Mexico through the border. We get the killers, drugs & crime, they get the money!'
He finished by saying; '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.'
Trump first weighed in on El Chapo's escape Sunday afternoon, writing: 'Mexico's biggest drug lord escapes from jail. Unbelievable corruption and USA is paying the price. I told you so!'
Trump has previously riled Mexicans by calling illegal immigrants from the country racists and thieves, whom the government was 'pushing' across the southern border on purpose because they are 'cunning' and American leaders are 'dumb'.
At a speech Saturday in Phoenix, Arizona,he unveiled an outlandish plan to fine Mexican authorities $100,000 for every immigrant who crosses the border without proper documentation.
Details began to emerge Sunday on Guzman's incredible escape - which appears to have seen him vanish through a hole in his cell's shower area and dash through a mile-long system of secret tunnels under the high-security Altiplano jail.
The tunnels led to a half-constructed building near the prison, which authorities were searching in the wake of the escape.
Authorities do not appear to know where Guzman may have fled. According to experts, he could be back in charge of his Sinaloa cartel within 24 hours.
Guzman was last seen about 9pm Saturday in the shower area of his cell, according to a statement from the National Security Commission.
After a time he was lost by the prison's security camera surveillance network. Upon checking his cell, authorities found it empty and a 20 x 20-inch hole near the shower, which led to the tunnel complex.
In the wake of his escape, some wondered aloud whether Guzman had busted out of prison on a revenge mission after hearing Trump's comments.
Trump himself later went back on the offensive, claiming that renewed attention on drugs from Mexico has vindicated his aggressive stance.
He appeared to claim that the media had been denying that point until now.
He wrote: '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!
'....but that's what I've been saying. Very unfair treatment by the media!'
On the run: Joaquin Guzman Loera, pictured in a mugshot last year, fled from his prison Saturday night
Questions were raised Sunday over why Guzman was being held in Mexico, rather than in the U.S., which has filed drug trafficking charges against him.
Earlier this year, the Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said that sending Guzman to the U.S. would save Mexico a lot of money, but keeping him there was a question of national sovereignty.
Murillo Karam dismissed concerns that Guzman would escape a second time. That risk 'does not exist', he said. Karam has since been replaced.
Sunday's jailbreak was Guzman's second. Guzman was caught by authorities for the first time in Guatemala in 1993, from which he was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking.
Less than ten years later, in 2001, he escaped from the Puente Grande prison in western Jalisco state with the help of prison guards.
He hid in a laundry cart to make his getaway, but there are several theories as to how he got out.
Guzman is known for his ability to pay off local residents and even authorities, who tipped him off to security operations launched for his capture.
He was finally tracked down to a modest beachside high-rise in the Pacific Coast resort city of Mazatlan in February 2014, where he had been hiding with his beauty-queen wife and twin daughters.
Before security forces captured him, they went on a several-day chase through Culiacan, the capital of his home Sinaloa state, for which the cartel is named.
They found houses with steel-enforced doors and elaborate tunnels - where Guzman had apparently been staying - that allowed him to escape through the sewer system.
Reactions in the United States to Guzman's escape ranged from disbelief to outrage, with some observers saying it dramatically illustrated the need for captured cartel kingpins to be promptly extradited to the U.S.
Investigation: Federal policemen inspect a pipeline under construction by the Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juarez
Manhunt: Soldiers of Mexican Army check a coach at a tollbooth of Mexico-Toluca highway, in Mexico City
A former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency said he was dismayed by the weekend escape - apparently through a mile-long tunnel - from the Altiplano prison.
'It is a shock that the most dangerous cartel leader in the world has escaped,' Peter Bensinger said Sunday. 'He ought to have been housed in an American prison.'
The Chicago Crime Commission, an influential crime-fighting group, said the prison break meant Guzman will regain his title as Public Enemy No. 1 in Chicago, where his Sinaloa cartel has long dominated the cocaine and heroin trade.
'It's clear that Mexican prisons are not equipped to hold Guzman,' said John Pastuovic. a spokesman for the non-governmental body. 'This would not have occurred if he had been in an American prison.'
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