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DeSantis: If Trump Kept Promise to Build Wall, Biden Couldn’t Have Done as Much Damage
Breitbart ^ | 19 Oct 2023 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 10/19/2023 10:34:35 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

During an interview with NewsNation aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Hill,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that if his rival Republican candidate former President Donald Trump had followed his promise to build a wall on the border, “it would have been much more difficult for Biden to get away with” the damage he’s done on the border.

DeSantis said, “I do think, when he’s saying things, like, in Iowa, the other day, that, well, he couldn’t follow his campaign promise to have Mexico build the border — pay for the border wall, because there was, no legal mechanism he could have used to have Mexico pay, so he’s rationalizing that failure. The problem is, that was his main campaign promise. I was at the rallies. It was fun. Everyone was cheering that. And the second thing is there actually was a way he could have done that. He could have imposed fees — and I will do this as president — you could have imposed fees on the remittances that people send to foreign countries, Mexico included. That would have raised billions of dollars.”

He added, “I think it’s important, because that was his core campaign promise. You look at what Biden’s done with that border. If he had followed through and built the wall, it would have been much more difficult for Biden to get away with what’s happened.”

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To: SoConPubbie

When DeSantis says things like this I loose all respect for him. He knows damn well where the blame is.


81 posted on 10/19/2023 1:29:29 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I know Congress thwarted him a lot, but he only managed to get 40-ish miles of new wall built. DeSantis is right. If he had managed to build more, the damage at the border would be less.


82 posted on 10/19/2023 1:38:49 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: sjmjax

Nobody said Trump blocked it, but it didn’t get done.


83 posted on 10/19/2023 1:39:20 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: joshua c

This is a complete falsehood.

And if it were true, how do you account for the fact that DeSantis is committed to finishing Trump’s wall and taxing remissions to Mexico? Wouldn’t that be contrary to his alleged donors?


84 posted on 10/19/2023 1:40:34 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: AuntB

You’re not telling the truth.


85 posted on 10/19/2023 1:41:34 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

“ow do you account for the fact that DeSantis is committed to finishing Trump’s wall and taxing remissions to Mexico”

You obviously are gullible since it was DeSantis who BLOCKED the funding of the wall under Trump in 2018.


86 posted on 10/19/2023 1:45:07 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

This is completely false. Stop parroting everything the propagandists tell you.


87 posted on 10/19/2023 1:47:08 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

“Nobody said Trump blocked it, but it didn’t get done.’

Aw, poor baby, your fragile widdle ego got hurt by the orange man who said he would build a wall, and was building a wall, hundreds of miles of it, but that wasn’t good enough for your poor widdle feelings.

Never mind the establishment GOP DeSantis blocking his every request for funding or your liberal politicians suing to stop the wall. You hurt the wall construction with your liberal voting habits but then blame Trump for the outcome, an outcome that still resulted in hundreds of miles of wall having been built.

Let’s just face the fact that you HATED the fact that Trump got that much of the wall built. It pissed you off that the rest of your family couldn’t just jump the border!

Am I right or what???!


88 posted on 10/19/2023 1:49:27 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: TBP
"This is completely false. Stop parroting everything the propagandists tell you."

It seems you are the one parroting crap someone told you. I was quoting his voting record. So, let's just post that record so the ignorant ones as yourself can read it for once instead of repeating crap they read on the Internet.

Bill Number: H. R. 6136, JUN 27, 2018, 01:50 PM | 115TH CONGRESS, 2ND SESSION

EC. 5101. BORDER SECURITY FUNDING. (a) Funding.—In addition to amounts otherwise made available by this Act or any other provision of law, there is hereby appropriated to the “U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements” account, out of any amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $23,400,000,000, to be available as described in subsections (b) and (c), of which—

(1) $16,625,000,000 shall be for a border wall system along the southern border of the United States, including physical barriers and associated detection technology, roads, and lighting;

"DeSantis Republican Florida NO"

89 posted on 10/19/2023 1:59:14 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Did DeSantis ever talk about building a wall while he was in Congress, prior to Trump running for president? What a putz.


90 posted on 10/19/2023 1:59:25 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: TBP
I know Congress thwarted him a lot, but he only managed to get 40-ish miles of new wall built. DeSantis is right. If he had managed to build more, the damage at the border would be less.

Another KNOWN LIE by a DeSanctimonious supporter.

President Trump got 450 miles of Wall built.

This is an extremely deceitful post by you, and I guess we should expect it because the guy you are supporting lied about it as well.

While some of the miles were replacement miles, the so-called existing "fencing" could be breached by a four year old. In some places you could simply step over it, others, a simple short ladder would suffice. Now juxtapose that with the ACTUAL Wall Trump build 30-feet high steel in Concrete.

Where Trump's wall replaced existing "Fencing" the wall became effective, whereas before, it was really a symbolic wall at best.

QUIT YER LYIN'!!!

Start being an Honorable Freeper!

91 posted on 10/19/2023 1:59:57 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: SoConPubbie

This is really weird… I used to like DeSantis - but he’s turned out to be so tone deaf.

The voters he needs to win over love Trump and think he did a great job… I don’t see how DeSantis expects to win over Trump supporters by badmouthing Trump.


92 posted on 10/19/2023 2:07:24 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: TBP

” DeSantis is right. If he had managed to build more, the damage at the border would be less.”

If DeSantis hadn’t provided the key vote to not fund the wall Trump wouldn’t have had to expend the time to otherwise find the money elsewhere,

THE WALL NOT BEING BUILT FASTER IS ON RON DESANTIS AND HIS VOTING DOWN HR6136 IN 2018!!!


93 posted on 10/19/2023 2:08:25 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Reno89519
This is so tedious. Trump did all that he could to get the wall built and the materials that had not been used were recently taken away by the commie dems for their own use. They probably sold it as scrap and pocketed the whole amount received. As for DeSantis, it is so revealing how we think of a politician as patriotic pro America but once the Rino commie sympathizers whisper sweet political promises in their dumb ass ears, they become all agog with the Presidential aspirations. Glad we got the full picture of DeSantis before we fell for the scam again.
94 posted on 10/19/2023 2:10:53 PM PDT by mountainfolk (q)
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To: SoConPubbie

Never ever going to vote for this George Bush subordinate. He keeps saying dumb cr@p


95 posted on 10/19/2023 2:18:45 PM PDT by everlast
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To: sjmjax

Feckless Republicans.
And traitorous Democrats.


96 posted on 10/19/2023 2:21:23 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: TBP

Bull! Show me or STHU. Typical McCain dipwad.
Don’t call me a liar you SOB!.
Do not post to me!

Idiots


97 posted on 10/19/2023 2:36:41 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: TBP

Crawl back under your rock, traitor.


98 posted on 10/19/2023 2:37:54 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

That is a grotesquely misleading map.

Check out the actual government sources in the links that I posted.


99 posted on 10/19/2023 3:28:05 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CodeToad

No lies here.

Check the sources from my links.


100 posted on 10/19/2023 3:28:30 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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