By Jim Meyers from Newsmax

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called on the FBI to investigate threats against him on Twitter by Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who escaped from prison over the weekend.

On the Twitter account administered by Guzman’s son Ivan, the escapee wrote in Spanish: “Keep f… around and I’m gonna make you swallow your b…ch words you f… whitey milk-s….”

The latter expletive is a homophobic slur in Mexico, according to the Daily Mail.

A Trump aide said in a statement: “The FBI is fully aware of the situation and is actively investigating this threat against Mr. Trump.”

An FBI spokesman said the agency had no statement on the issue. “Standard practice is to neither confirm nor deny FBI investigations,” he said.

The New York Post reported that the tweet was sent by Guzman’s son rather than Guzman, the billionaire head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.

But the Mail disclosed that the tweeter also took aim at Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto: “And you @EPN, don’t call me a delinquent because I give people work unlike you you cowardly politician.”

He also wrote: “There’s no jail time for such a big midget.” El Chapo means midget or shorty in Spanish — Guzman stands just 5-foot-6.

Four Mexican government officials told Reuters they could not say whether the account, as well as several others in the name of some of Guzman’s children that were linked to it, were genuine.

“I am told they are apocryphal,” said Mexican Deputy Interior Minister Roberto Campa.

Guzman, who escaped from a maximum-security prison through a tunnel, ran the powerful Sinaloa cartel after an earlier prison breakout in 2001 until he was arrested last year.

The cartel has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Guzman posed a threat to public safety in the United States, and that Washington has “made quite clear to the Mexicans our interest in ensuring that he faces justice here in the United States.”p>

Guzman’s Twitter attack was an apparent response to Trump’s Twitter post on Sunday about Guzman’s escape: “Can you envision Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton negotiating with ‘El Chapo,’ the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison? Trump, however, would kick his a..”

Image: Escaped Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Targets Trump in Twitter Rant (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images; Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

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U.S. officials knew of El Chapo escape plans over a year ago

By Megan Specia From Mashable

The U.S. had knowledge of at least two plots to spring Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from prison more than a year before his escape, according to government documents.

Guzman’s escape from prison over the weekend has sparked an international manhunt and raised questions about the security capabilities of Mexican prisons.

Internal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal that drug agents first got information on plans to spring Guzman from the prison in Altiplano, Mexico, in March 2014 — just one month after his capture. Intelligence officials had several pieces of information indicating Guzman was planning an escape long before he slipped out of a maximum security prison using a sophisticated tunnel this weekend.

Guzman, who had been on the run for 13 years, was arrested in February 2014. At the time, U.S. and Mexican officials were reveling in his capture, hailing it as an achievement in Mexico’s battle against the drug cartels.

The DEA documents show that in March 2014, agents in Los Angeles reported a possible escape operation funded by another drug organization that operates under Guzman’s own Sinaloa Cartel. That plan involved threatening or bribing prison officials. In July 2014, the same investigation revealed that Guzman’s son had sent a team of lawyers and military counter-intelligence personnel to design a breakout scheme.

In December, agents in the DEA’s Houston Field Division reported that a Mexican army general stated “that a deal was in place to release both Guzman-Loera and imprisoned Los Zetas Cartel leader Miguel Angel ‘Z-40’ Tevino-Morales.”

However, Saturday’s escape employed a technique more familiar to Guzman. He escaped by slipping down a shaft from his prison cell’s shower and disappearing into a sophisticated mile-long tunnel. Guzman, considered one of the world’s richest and most powerful drug traffickers, had previously evaded police for more than a decade by using a series of tunnels under his properties to escape raids, according to reports.

The DEA documents didn’t show that U.S. officials had any knowledge about Saturday’s escape plan. Mexico’s national security commissioner, Monte Alejandro Rubido, said Guzmán was last seen in prison about 8 p.m. on Saturday night, according to the Washington Post. Guards later found a hatch that led by ladder down to a tunnel running under the prison, which was “illuminated, perforated with PVC piping for ventilation and equipped with an adapted motorcycle-on-rails to whisk the drug lord to freedom.”

U.S. officials said they will assist Mexico in finding Guzman; Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement on Monday saying the Department of Justice is also concerned about the escape.

“We share the government of Mexico’s concern regarding the escape of Joaquin Guzman Loera ‘Chapo’ from a Mexican prison,” said Lynch. “The U.S. government stands ready to work with our Mexican partners to provide any assistance that may help support his swift recapture.”

In addition to the crimes Guzman was imprisoned for in Mexico, he faces multiple drug trafficking and organized crime charges in the United States.

Prior to his 2014 arrest, he was on the DEA’s most-wanted list.

Some information from the Associated Press.

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