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Trump Meets with Mexican Billionnaire Carlos Slim, setting aside their differences

Trump and Mexico's richest man met for 'lovely dinner' at Mar-a-Lago resort on mondat Dec 19th. The two billionaires, who have clashed in the past, appeared to…

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During the election campaign, Donald Trump accused Carlos Slim -owner of the New York Times and one of Mexico’s wealthiest men- to be a string-pulling manipulator who orchestrated a media conspiracy to defeat him against his Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton. 

On his side, Carlos Slim has previously scrapped a TV deal with Trump on the grounds that he was a racist.

But on Saturday the two billionaires had dinner together in Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, in a sign that they are becoming 'closer", according to newspaper The Guardian.

Contents of the dinner or discussion were not disclosed, though Trump called the encounter “a lovely dinner with a wonderful man” in a statement to the Washington Post, which broke news of the meeting.

In the recent past, Trump attacked Slim over his ownership stake in the New York Times and friendship with Bill Clinton. Slim has been a donor of the Clinton Foundation. 

“The New York Times strings are being pulled by Mexico’s Carlos Slim, a billionaire who benefits from Nafta and supports Hillary Clinton’s open border policies,” Trump said during the electoral campaign.

The meeting between Trump and Slim happens while the Mexican government tries to define a content plan to confront Trump, who has promised to encourage protectionism to avoid american jobs being "stolen" by its southern neighbor. Also, the Mexican peso has plummeted since Trump announced his presidential aspirations and forecasts have slashed 2017 growth projections. 

As reported in The Guardian and The Washington Post.

 

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