Last month Trump shutdown government in his attempt to force Americans to give Trump a “$25Billion Taxpayer Bailout Fund” to fund Trump’s $25B lie. Tonight Trump will tell lies & threaten to “declare national emergency” hoping to force Americans to give Trump a “$25Billion Taxpayer Bailout Fund” to fund Trump’s $25B lie.
But, less than one year ago, January 27, 2018 transcripts show Trump told Mexican President that the wall “is the least important thing we are talking about, but politically it’s the most important.”
Yes, Trump admitted the wall is “the least important thing”
Trump went on to beg Mexico’s President to stop saying publicly that Mexico would never pay for Trump’s wall.Trump also threatened to stop doing any business all with Mexico if Mexico refused to stop saying pubicly that Mexico will never pay for Trump’s wall.
Washington Post wrote:
But in his first White House call with Mexico’s president, Trump described his vow to charge Mexico as a growing political problem, pressuring the Mexican leader to stop saying publicly that his government would never pay.
“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.
The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “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.”
He described the wall as “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.”
Washington Post goes on and writes that to Trump the wall is nothing more than ‘political’
“On the wall, you and I both have a political problem,” Trump said. “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 seemed to acknowledge that his threats to make Mexico pay had left him cornered politically. “I have to have Mexico pay for the wall — I have to,” he said. “I have been talking about it for a two-year period.”
To solve that problem, Trump pressured Peña Nieto to suppress the issue. When pressed on who would pay for the wall, “We should both say, ‘We will work it out.’ It will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said. “As opposed to you saying, ‘We will not pay,’ and me saying, ‘We will not pay.’”
Peña Nieto resisted, saying that Trump’s repeated threats had placed “a very big mark on our back, Mr. President.” He warned that “my position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for the wall.”
More highlights from transcript
MEXICO PRESIDENT: But my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that Mexico cannot pay for that wall.
TRUMP: But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.
TRUMP: I do not bring up the wall but when the press brings up the wall, I will say, “let us see how it is going – let us see how it is working out with Mexico.” Because from an economic issue, it is the least important thing we were talking about, but psychologically, it means something so let us just say “we will work it out.” And if you want to do that, then we will go back to the negotiation table with Jared and Luis.
So tonight, when you hear or read Trump’s “National Security” lies just remember, Trump is lying in order to force Americans to give him a “$25B Taxpayer Bailout Fund” to fund Trump’s $25B lie. And we know Trump is lying because he already told Mexico that the wall “is the least important thing...”