'Completely Full Of It': Chris Christie Gives Newsmax Host Blunt Trump Fact-Check
1 year, 4 months ago

'Completely Full Of It': Chris Christie Gives Newsmax Host Blunt Trump Fact-Check

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, hit back at rival Donald Trump during a Newsmax interview on Thursday evening. This is another of these Donald Trump fabrications.” Christie said if Trump did “solve” the war, it would be by giving Russian President Vladimir Putin control of the situation. Getting back to the wall, Christie said Trump’s pace would take 110 years to build a wall across the nearly 2,000-mile border. You know, at that pace he’s going to have to have over a hundred years as president to get it done, so can we stop making excuses for him?” Christie added: “He’s a big boy now, as much as he complains all the time about how much he’s picked on.

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Trump's $20M-per-mile border wall can be bypassed with simple power tools: report
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump's $20M-per-mile border wall can be bypassed with simple power tools: report

Raw Story  

Immigrants seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border wall — which cost an estimated $20 million per mile to build — can wield simple power tools to saw their way through. During Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, his favorite slogan, "Build the wall," never came up. Instead of the wall, "Trump now wants a " bloody " mass deportation operation immediately removing …

Fact-checker zings Trump for his Waco flub contradicting himself in the same speech
1 year, 8 months ago

Fact-checker zings Trump for his Waco flub contradicting himself in the same speech

Raw Story  

Among the many lies that Donald Trump told during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, was his ongoing claim that he kept his promise to build a wall on the southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. CNN's Daniel Dale listed off a few of the lies that Trump told his Texas audience, but the main one was …

Biden decree ends ‘emergency’ that Trump used to build wall
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden decree ends ‘emergency’ that Trump used to build wall

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his letter, the president said Trump’s declaration of a national emergency had been “unwarranted” and that he had directed that “no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted …

What is happening with US President Donald Trump's border wall, and what does president-elect Joe Biden intend to do?
3 years, 11 months ago

What is happening with US President Donald Trump's border wall, and what does president-elect Joe Biden intend to do?

ABC  

A centrepiece of US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy was the construction of a "big, beautiful wall" on the US-Mexico border — and the promise that Mexico would pay for it. During his 2020 State of the Union address, Mr Trump said "substantially more than 500 miles" of the wall would be complete by early 2021. "Mexico is going …

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, trying to show progress on perhaps the president’s best-known campaign promise four years ago. Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser, told reporters Wednesday that “we have a president campaigning on having successfully built a border …

Trump campaigns on border wall progress. There’s not much of it
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump campaigns on border wall progress. There’s not much of it

LA Times  

President Trump, whose plans to campaign on a booming economy were ruined by the coronavirus, traveled Tuesday to the southern edge of Arizona to highlight completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico. Only about “three miles of new border wall system constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 …

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