Trump Jr. pushes back on idea his dad 'choked' during Mexico meeting

Donald Trump's oldest son fired back at Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton's campaign on Thursday, rebutting their accusation that his father "choked" by not discussing the construction of the border wall in depth with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Kaine appeared on multiple networks Thursday morning (Fox News Channel excluded), tearing into Trump's tough immigration speech on ABC after failing to bring up payment of the wall during his meeting as indicative of someone who "talks out of both sides of his mouth."


“I think it's ridiculous. That has no credence. Anyone who knows anything about a deal or negotiation you build a relationship first. You don’t go with the hardest line aspect of a thing on day one. We’ve been very clear. We’ve never backed away from that. There are methodologies by which we can do it," Donald Trump Jr. said during an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

Suggesting that if Clinton or Kaine might think differently if they had "ever done a deal, or maybe a good deal, in their lives" or "anything in business," Trump Jr. laced into the Democratic ticket for never experiencing "the real world" rather than "just being politicians talking in theory without any actual practice maybe he’d know that, but because they don’t, because they’ve never built anything, because they’ve never actually created a job, they sit there in sound bites."

"Hillary Clinton will regurgitate sound bites that someone much wittier than her will write for her," Trump Jr. remarked. "That’s the way they’ve conducted their entire lives. My father has done these things, he’s created those jobs. He’s done it in the real world where real people’s lives, their families, their families’ livelihoods and well-beings depend on him. Trust me. He knows how to set up a negotiation.”