NEW HAMPSHIRE: State Leaders Demand Apology After Trump Tells Mexico Their State Is A “Drug-Infested Den”

Politico reports:



New Hampshire leaders reacted angrily Thursday to President Donald Trump’s description of their state as a “drug-infested den” in a leaked transcript of a phone call earlier this year with Mexico’s president. “Up in New Hampshire — I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den,” Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in January, according to a transcript of the call obtained by The Washington Post and published Thursday.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who has introduced legislation, such as Carl’s Law, to combat addiction to prescription painkillers and heroin, demanded an apology from the president on Twitter. The state Democratic Party’s Twitter account tweeted a photo of a pristine coastal landscape in winter, asking whether that looked like a “drug infested den,” and it called on state Republican leaders to reply to Trump.