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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When DeSantis says things like this I loose all respect for him. He knows damn well where the blame is.
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.
Nobody said Trump blocked it, but it didn’t get done.
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?
You’re not telling the truth.
“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.
This is completely false. Stop parroting everything the propagandists tell you.
“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???!
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"
Did DeSantis ever talk about building a wall while he was in Congress, prior to Trump running for president? What a putz.
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.
” 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!!!
Never ever going to vote for this George Bush subordinate. He keeps saying dumb cr@p
Feckless Republicans.
And traitorous Democrats.
Bull! Show me or STHU. Typical McCain dipwad.
Don’t call me a liar you SOB!.
Do not post to me!
Idiots
Crawl back under your rock, traitor.
That is a grotesquely misleading map.
Check out the actual government sources in the links that I posted.
No lies here.
Check the sources from my links.
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