Trump Wants To Negotiate The Price Of The Border Wall Down

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Trump Wants To Negotiate The Price Of The Border Wall Down

Posted at 12:00 pm on February 11, 2017 by Susan Wright


If you’re a Trump apologist, desperately contorting yourself to explain how when Trump said he’d build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, he actually meant the American taxpayers would foot the bill, but that Mexico would “pay” for it in other ways, and that was all part of the master plan, then you’ll probably feel some relief over the latest from Trump.

On Saturday morning, the president took to Twitter to give an update on the magical, mystical border wall.

  Donald J. Trump
✔  ‎@realDonaldTrump 

I am reading that the great border WALL will cost more than the government originally thought, but I have not gotten involved in the.....

7:18 AM - 11 Feb 2017

  Donald J. Trump
✔  ‎@realDonaldTrump 

...design or negotiations yet. When I do, just like with the F-35 FighterJet or the Air Force One Program, price will come WAY DOWN!

7:24 AM - 11 Feb 2017

I seriously have no idea why “wall” was capitalized, there.

According to a Reuters report, the wall could cost the taxpayers around $21.6 billion, as opposed to the $12 billion Trump initially reported.

Also from the report:

The wall would actually be a series of fences and walls covering more than 1,250 miles by the end of 2020, the report said, citing internal Homeland Security Department figures.

The one thing that only gets a cursory mention is personnel.

No walling or fencing will ever be successful, without enough personnel and the right policy in place.

That’s what I really want to hear more of.

Will their be aviation assets monitoring the border? How many agents will be on the ground, and how close to the wall will they be? Will they be armed for their protection, with something more than bean bags or rubber bullets? Will the policy be catch-and-release, or catch, detain, vet, then deliver back to Mexican authorities?

To paraphrase now-Energy Secretary Rick Perry: Without personnel in place, if you build a 30-foot wall, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.

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http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/11/trump-wants-negotiate-price-border-wall/?utm_source=thenewamericana.com

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   Thought I'd sneak this in while @TomSea was preoccupied, Susan Wright raises his blood pressure.

[Frank Cannon]

First of all this isn't a magical idea. Hitlary, Obuma and a whole slew of leftists voted for the building of the wall. As for paying for it, why do we give a shit about that. The govt is still out giving away Obamaphone's last week when I drove through the ghetto.

[Chosen Daughter]

Oh what a way to blow it Corby.  Nobody wants anyone to have questions.  But I like your questions.

 
How deep into the ground is it going to go?  Will it stop the tunnels?

What kind of fence and wall?  We already have fence with holes.

[Chosen Daughter]

First of all this isn't a magical idea. Hitlary, Obuma and a whole slew of leftists voted for the building of the wall. As for paying for it, why do we give a shit about that. The govt is still out giving away Obamaphone's last week when I drove through the ghetto.

Yes we can even save 21 billion.  Consider all the free births.  Free health care, dental, vision, cash, food stamp, phone and internet.

[Bigun]

Oh what a way to blow it Corby.  Nobody wants anyone to have questions.  But I like your questions.

 
How deep into the ground is it going to go?  Will it stop the tunnels?

What kind of fence and wall?  We already have fence with holes.

Done properly it will do all of those things and more!

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   As a TEXAN very familiar with the Big Bend area and the Rio Grande, I am just apparently to stupid to figure out how this can possibly work in this area.

    Big Bend has very stringent border protection, only if your a long haired white guy who looks like he's smuggling something, learned that the hard way, took my Truck completely apart.

[geronl]

he plans a trillion dollar stimulus but balks at $21 billion for da wall?

doesn't really compute

[Wingnut]

    Big Bend has very stringent border protection, only if your a long haired white guy who looks like he's smuggling something, learned that the hard way, took my Truck completely apart.

Not to mention that full body cavity search.

[Frank Cannon]

he plans a trillion dollar stimulus but balks at $21 billion for da wall?

doesn't really compute

Are for real man? Most of your objections anymore border on the stupid. Are you for having piles of foreign nationals flooding in here sucking up all the gubmint money they can?

[Frank Cannon]

   As a TEXAN very familiar with the Big Bend area and the Rio Grande, I am just apparently to stupid to figure out how this can possibly work in this area.

    Big Bend has very stringent border protection, only if your a long haired white guy who looks like he's smuggling something, learned that the hard way, took my Truck completely apart.

If that truck was a Ford, it was probably easy. The rust had half of it just fall apart.

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Not to mention that full body cavity search.

 That was the fun part.

   Our mistake was taking that ferry across and staying over for a night, Gringo Honeymoon, that set off their bells and whistles, otherwise pretty nice bunch of guys, they apologized.

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