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Trump claimed ex-presidents told him they wished they built a wall.
So the only way you’re going to stop that is by having a solid steel structure, or concrete structure, whether it’s a wall or some form of very powerful steel. Now the steel is actually more expensive than the concrete, but I think we’re probably talking about steel because I really feel the other side feels better about it, and I can understand what they’re saying. It is more expensive.
We mentioned the price, that we want $5.6 billion very strongly. Because numbers are thrown around — $1.6, $2.1, $2.5 [billion] — this is national security we’re talking about. We’re not talking about games. We’re talking about national security. This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me, and they all know it. Some of them have told me that we should have done it.
-- Donald Trump
The truth: every living former POTUS has expressly rejected the notion of building Trump's wall.
How dare he invoke any former POTUS and claim one of them said something they did not!
Is Trump so full-on loony that he didn't realize that there are only four people who could have made remarks of the nature he indicated?
Is Trump so naive as to think that any one of them would lie on his behalf? Trump may be able on occasion to lie and then get his staff to swear to it, but the rest of the world won't. And no former POTUS will or even has reason to.
So the only way you’re going to stop that is by having a solid steel structure, or concrete structure, whether it’s a wall or some form of very powerful steel. Now the steel is actually more expensive than the concrete, but I think we’re probably talking about steel because I really feel the other side feels better about it, and I can understand what they’re saying. It is more expensive.
We mentioned the price, that we want $5.6 billion very strongly. Because numbers are thrown around — $1.6, $2.1, $2.5 [billion] — this is national security we’re talking about. We’re not talking about games. We’re talking about national security. This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me, and they all know it. Some of them have told me that we should have done it.
-- Donald Trump
The truth: every living former POTUS has expressly rejected the notion of building Trump's wall.
- Jimmy Carter
Clarification from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter:
"I have not discussed the border wall with President Trump, and do not support him on the issue.”
-- Jimmy Carter - Bill Clinton:
"They’ve not talked since the inauguration." - George W. Bush
"A spokesperson for George W. Bush, Freddy Ford, said Bush never discussed a border wall with Trump." - Barack Obama
"Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn’t just run counter to our history as the world’s melting pot, it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe."
How dare he invoke any former POTUS and claim one of them said something they did not!
Is Trump so full-on loony that he didn't realize that there are only four people who could have made remarks of the nature he indicated?
Is Trump so naive as to think that any one of them would lie on his behalf? Trump may be able on occasion to lie and then get his staff to swear to it, but the rest of the world won't. And no former POTUS will or even has reason to.
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