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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Check my links: most of those miles were replacement miles.
“No lies here. Check the sources from my links.”
I’ve given your the sources of record. Your crap is crap.
All liberal sources. No wonder you have such a F’d up mind. You listen to liberals.
You are so full of ish!
No, pal—they link to the official government sources. That’s why I told you to look to them.
Jeesh—I don’t want to even think of what kind of code you write!
Trump puts this up and your liberal sources say there was a wall already, so it doesn't count.
You have to be really retarded to think those few strands of barbed wire was a wall. It is obvious you do not read your sources. You read their headlines and that's it. Typical liberal: A gullible simple minded moron filled with bitterness and hate for this country.
My name isn’t about code, you moron.
“No, pal—they link to the official government sources”
They may link to gov sources but they conclude things not in fact, like calling a few strands of barbed wire a wall.
I don’t know what makes liberals so stupid but it really works.
My God, your mind can’t hold information: as I originally posted, none of this is a “wall”. It is all fencing. And yes, of course Trump’s replacement was improvement—otherwise why replace it at all?
But I said to go to the sources. I just posted the link because it consolidated government sources.
Not much of researcher, are you?
DeSantis is exactly correct.
The “remittance fees” are set by the executive branch, and therefore could have been directed by a simple executive order. Here’s an example:
Not only did Trump not take advantage of this authority, as he had promised, he is now out on the campaign trial admitting that he never intended to make Mexico pay for the wall, despite claiming he would countless times.
https://twitter.com/GovRealDeal/status/1708841925967483139
I trust DeSantis will actually release the Executive Order to make Mexico pay for the wall, to finally make good on Trump’s phony promise.
Phew—that would be some crazy-butt, loopy logic being deployed if it did.
You claimed what Trump installed was not a wall. Total retarded comment.
“Not much of researcher, are you?”
PhD, dummy. I learned how to discern fact from fiction. You do not. You read a headline from a liberal source and conclude it as fact. I peer review scientific articles, you can’t peer review so much as a political rag.
You actually believe that? Ok.
You can’t argue with a traitor, but thank you for trying.
I gave you some examples of walls, to help you understand the difference between a wall and a fence.
But apparently your comprehension is still wanting.
Pal, you are repeating your idiocy. (Lots of idiotic PhDs out there, too.)
I posted the source with express directions to look up the links in it to the official government sources.
Probably too late to up your critical thinking at this point.
And could the peer review process be much more corrupt at this point?
One Congressional vote does not a story tell. On that same vote, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Thomas Massie, Louie Ghomert, Mark Meadows, down that line, all voted against that bill. So there was obviously an issue with that particular bill, and DeSantis just voted right along with all the ultra conservatives against it.
The issue in this thread is that Trump never took advantage of his own power as President, to adjust various fees such as money going back to Mexico via a simple executive order. That way, he wouldn’t have even needed any funding from Congress.
That’s what he promised, to make Mexicans pay for the wall, not Americans. But now, since he knows he can say anything and his supporters will still excuse it, Trump is even out on the campaign trail making fun of how gullible his supporters were for believing he was ever going to make Mexico pay for the wall.
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