{"id":62382,"date":"2017-01-06T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62382"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:28:08","slug":"trump-mexico-will-pay-us-back-for-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62382","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Mexico Will Pay Us Back For &#8220;Great Wall&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>After months of promising that Mexico would pay for a border wall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/05\/politics\/border-wall-house-republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers\/index.html?adkey=bn\">CNN <\/a>reported last night that Trump was working with House Republicans on a plan to fund the wall project through appropriations, a move which they said would <strong>&#8220;break a key campaign promise.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April<\/strong>, according to House Republican officials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border,<\/strong> though in October, Trump suggested for the first time that Mexico would reimburse the US for the cost of the wall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is Anderson Cooper on the topic last night:<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid338865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3OFqAs0Jz4c\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this morning Trump has fired back with yet another tweet blasting the &#8220;dishonest media&#8221; saying that <strong>any taxpayer money spent on the &#8220;Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/817329823374831617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/817329823374831617\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded is-deciderHtmlWhitespace\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/817329823374831617\" data-tweet-id=\"817329823374831617\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--twitter \" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ever defiant Vicente Fox maintained that while Trump may ask Mexico to pay for his border wall,<strong> &#8220;neither [he] nor Mexico would pay for his racist monument.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump may ask whoever he wants, but still neither myself nor Mexico are going to pay for his racist monument.<br \/>Another promise he can&#39;t keep.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VicenteFoxQue\/status\/817212404144766979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p>So, can taxpayers charge Mexico interest?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-06\/trump-vows-any-money-spent-great-wall-will-be-paid-back-mexico-later\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-06\/trump-vows-any-money-spent-great-wall-will-be-paid-back-mexico-later<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}