Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is too scared to accept help from the U.S. military in confronting her nation’s drug cartels, President Donald Trump said.

Trump told The Daily Caller in an interview on Friday that he offered to have U.S. forces assist in efforts to crack down on the flow of lethal drugs such as fentanyl across the border but said she is “very scared.”

The Daily Caller released a transcript of the interview on Monday night.

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