In Leaked Transcript Trump Begs Mexico’s President to Stop Saying He Won’t Pay for the Wall David Badash - New Civil Rights Movement
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Trump pledges to build a wall (CNN)

Update: Republicans and Democrats Condemn Leaking Trump's Conversation with Foreign Leaders (Politico)

For 18 months Donald Trump campaigned on building a wall on America's southern border, and promised countless - hundreds if not thousands of times - that Mexico would pay for it "100%." But just seven days after he was sworn in as president, Donald Trump begged President Enrique Peña Nieto to stop saying Mexico would not pay for the wall, and promised him a deal so that the costs of construction would even out between the two countries.

“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump told the Mexican president, speaking of Peña Nieto's very public remarks refusing to pay for Trump's wall, according to a complete transcript obtained by The Washington Post.

Trump told his counterpart, “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”

Between taxes and tariffs and other financial options Trump promised the costs “will work out in the formula somehow,” and, “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay,” meaning neither country would be the loser.

"The only thing I will ask you though is on the wall, you and I both have a political problem," Trump says in his January 27 telephone conversation with President Peña Nieto. "My people stand up and say, 'Mexico will pay for the wall' and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language," Trump continued.

"But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall – I have to," Trump added.

Read the rest at New Civil Rights Movement

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