Watch Donald Trump Try to Explain How He'll Get Mexico to Pay for His Wall Scott Eric Kaufman - Salon
go to original February 18, 2016

Republican front-runner Donald Trump once again boasted about the “big, beautiful wall” he’s going to erect between the United States and Mexico during the MSNBC town hall with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough last night, but Brzezinski wondered how exactly it would be built, and Trump’s answers were — to be charitable — thoroughly unconvincing.

“It’s so easy,” he said, “so easy.”

“‘Believe me’ is not an answer,” she replied.

“Believe me. Let me tell you how,” he said.

“How are you going to make Mexico pay?”

A flustered Trump replied, “Can I tell you? Can I tell you? We’re going to have a trade deficit of $58 billion. The wall is going to cost a fraction of that, maybe $10 or $12 billion, and it’s going to be a real wall. It’s going to be a high wall. It’s going to be a beautiful — it’s going to be a wall that works.”

“But how do you get Mexico to pay for it,” co-host Scarborough asked.

“It’s very simple,” Trump said. “You have five different ways. Number one — here’s the key. They are making, right — if you look at it as a company — $58 billion. The wall is a — a year. We have a trade deficit with Mexico of $58 billion, all I have to do it start playing with that trade deficit, and believe me, they’re going to pay for the wall. You watch.”

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