--- title: Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat description: Donald Trump has reached out to the FBI to investigate a threat he received via Twitter following his comments about escaped drug lord Joaquin "El... canonical: https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-14T02:51:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:13:13.260Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat og:description: "Trump, however, would kick his ass!" og:url: https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bdc989c5633f6da/698859e1cd1bbadab76fc285/trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat twitter:description: "Trump, however, would kick his ass!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bdc989c5633f6da/698859e1cd1bbadab76fc285/trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat by [Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 14, 2015 2:51 AM UTC  Presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump Presidential candidate and businessman Donald TrumpChicago Tribune—TNS via Getty Images by [Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 14, 2015 2:51 AM UTC Donald Trump has reached out to the FBI to investigate a threat he received via Twitter following his comments about [escaped drug lord](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mexicos-notorious-drug-lord-escapes-808203) Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, [ABC News reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-asks-fbi-investigate-el-chapo-related/story?id=32422035). The presidential candidate contacted the FBI’s Manhattan office Monday in response to an incendiary post from an account purportedly run by El Chapo, according to ABC News sources. “I’m fighting for much more than myself,” Trump said about the threat Monday in a statement. “I’m fighting for the future of our country which is being overrun by criminals. You can’t be intimidated. This is too important.” Trump posted numerous tweets Sunday about El Chapo, who broke out of a maximum-security prison in Mexico on Saturday, marking the second escape from a security facility for the nation’s most notorious drug kingpin. “Mexico’s biggest drug lord escapes from jail. Unbelievable corruption, and USA is paying the price. I told you so!” tweeted Trump, who has been touting a need to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border that he wants the Mexican government to fund. Then, writing in the third person, Trump added: “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 ass!” A response to Trump was posted later that day in Spanish to a Twitter account attributed to El Chapo, which read, “Keep f—ing around, and I will make you swallow your whore words….” It was not immediately clear who wrote the message. Trump has been in hot water following his [presidential campaign address](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-cnn-killers-rapists-805595) last month, in which he referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who are “bringing drugs \[and\] bringing crime.” The Miss USA pageant, which is run by Trump’s Miss Universe Organization, was broadcast Sunday on Reelz [after NBC](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/donald-trump-nbc-severing-ties-805706) and [Univision cut business ties](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/univision-ends-miss-universe-deal-805057) with Trump in the wake of his speech. A selection of tweets can be seen below. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620337666912059392) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620388576765870081) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620389447977320448) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620414942450200576) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620443960020963328) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620545104525307904) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620548053045542913) > [](https://twitter.com/ElChap0Guzman/status/620340119896133636) [_This article originally appeared on Hollywoodreporter.com_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat-808441) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat","datePublished":"2015-07-14T02:51:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:13:13.260Z","description":"Donald Trump has reached out to the FBI to investigate a threat he received via Twitter following his comments about escaped drug lord Joaquin \"El...","url":"https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bdc989c5633f6da/698859e1cd1bbadab76fc285/trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bdc989c5633f6da/698859e1cd1bbadab76fc285/trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year","caption":"trump-401k-plan-big-catch-year","creditText":"Chicago Tribune—TNS via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3956691/donald-trump-el-chapo-threat/","name":"Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged El Chapo–Affiliated Threat"}}]}] ```