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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s wall claim is beyond ‘redemption’
Breitbart ^ | 15 Feb 2020 | Associated Press

Posted on 02/16/2020 8:38:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, President Donald Trump told a rally that people who are in the United States illegally are paying for his Mexico border wall. It was the latest iteration of his effort to convince the public that Mexico is covering the cost, just as he promised throughout his 2016 campaign and since.

Evidence to the contrary came three days later. The Pentagon announced it is taking $3.8 billion approved by Congress for fighter aircraft, ships and other military programs and using the money to pay for the wall. The Defense Department took a similar step last year and may yet again. U.S. taxpayers are paying for the wall, not Mexico, as has been the case from the start.

Trump spread a variety of distortions at the rally, and still more in other venues during a week that came to be dominated by machinations involving the Justice Department. The release of his proposed budget prompted Democrats to wrongly accuse him of undermining Medicare.

The week in review:

THE WALL

TRUMP: “You do know who’s paying for the wall, don’t you? Redemption from illegal aliens that are coming. The redemption money is paying for the wall.” — New Hampshire rally Monday.

THE FACTS: To date, the money is coming from the U.S. treasury, meaning today’s taxpayers and the future ones who will inherit the federal debt. To the extent any people who came into the U.S. illegally are kicking in for the wall, it’s because they’re working and paying taxes like other workers.

“Redemption” payments don’t exist; Trump apparently meant to cite remittances. That refers to money that immigrants in the U.S. send to their countries of origin, often to family members. Trump has at various times talked about taxing or blocking such...

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The Associated Presstitutes strike out again.

I don't care how the ^%#@ he's paying for it.

He's keeping his promise to build it.

That's the ONLY thing that matters.

1 posted on 02/16/2020 8:38:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Mexico will pay for the wall...”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/mexico-halts-migrant-caravan-deports-hundreds-to-honduras-idUSKBN1ZK1PW

Nope, Mexico IS the wall. Game over.


2 posted on 02/16/2020 8:45:11 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

Lopez-Obrador and his administration have a bit more sense than I expected.

Mexico is a mess and probably always will be but I have to give them some limited respect for cooperating with Trump.


3 posted on 02/16/2020 8:50:11 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t care..at some point they will pay for it.


4 posted on 02/16/2020 8:51:34 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Protecting our borders is far more national defense than sending out troops to defend borders for other countries all around the world.

This point needs to be relentlessly driven home. It will put the establishment on the defense because its true and their is no way to defend this policy.


5 posted on 02/16/2020 9:00:23 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is it deplorable?


6 posted on 02/16/2020 9:06:16 AM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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The idiots actually think we care who pays for it.


7 posted on 02/16/2020 9:08:56 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

American Fact Check: “AP is beyond redemption for all the lies they tell”


8 posted on 02/16/2020 9:30:17 AM PST by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the worst you have is Mexico isn’t paying for it, as far as campaign promises not kept, you don’t get it. How many campaign promises has any former President not kept???

Trump derangement syndrome


9 posted on 02/16/2020 9:32:00 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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These IDIOTS want us to split with TRUMP because Mexico didn't pay for The Wall!

I don't care who pays for it as long as it gets built!

10 posted on 02/16/2020 9:36:33 AM PST by KavMan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did breitbart.com ... become the front for fake news by AP or Drudge?


11 posted on 02/16/2020 9:37:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It would look a bit fairer if the DNC just put its POTUS nomination up for an Ebay auction!!!)
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To: kingu

Thanks for posting this reality:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/mexico-halts-migrant-caravan-deports-hundreds-to-honduras-idUSKBN1ZK1PW

Nope, Mexico IS the wall. Game over.


12 posted on 02/16/2020 9:38:48 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It would look a bit fairer if the DNC just put its POTUS nomination up for an Ebay auction!!!)
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To: Leep
I don’t care..at some point they will pay for it.

Of course they will.

As someone earlier asked does it matter who paid for it? We're getting the wall, and lying about who footed the bill only makes the President look clueless.

13 posted on 02/16/2020 9:40:56 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Last time I tried to fact check AP, the system locked up on the word fact and shut down.


14 posted on 02/16/2020 9:50:34 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AP. Not worth reading!


15 posted on 02/16/2020 10:21:00 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Bob434

I guess AP is claiming illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they cost in hospital costs, education costs, welfare costs, ICE cost, criminal court costs and prison costs. Let them put some figures on that.


16 posted on 02/16/2020 10:35:21 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Here’s a figure they can’t dispute- illegals cost our country more than $600 BILLION DOLLARS Per Year, Every Year- Studies were done decades ago to try to determine how much illegals cost this country, with both direct costs, and incidental costs- their estimate back then was between $400 and $600 billion per year-it’s likely more than $1 Trillion today-

There is NO WAY Illegals pay that much in taxes every year-

If we spent a mere $25 Billion dollars for a wall, then spent a billion or so per year maintaining it, and spent a few billion deporting illegals out of this country (Liberals scream it would be ‘too expensive to deport them”)- We still be saving nearly $1 TRILLION Dollars per year, every single year


17 posted on 02/16/2020 10:43:09 AM PST by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mexico has been far more helpful to the US than the dems have. I don’t think anyone cares if the US has to spend money to build the wall.


18 posted on 02/16/2020 10:54:26 AM PST by euram
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To: Leep

Build the wall and in ten years it will pay for itself.


19 posted on 02/16/2020 12:05:25 PM PST by seowulf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The wall more than pays for itself many times overin free benefits not given to illegals,jail, prison and legal costs of illegals, the loss to victims, the stopping of many illegal drugs and their vast damages and costs to society, etc., etc., etc.


20 posted on 02/16/2020 12:25:24 PM PST by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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