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Two Republican presidential candidates, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former President Donald Trump, are accusing each other of making false claims about Trump’s wall on the border with Mexico.
Christie tweeted Saturday that, contrary to Trump’s signature campaign promise to get Mexico to pay for the wall, “Mexico didn’t pay for any of it. Not one damn peso.” Trump claimed in a Saturday speech that he kept his promise: “Remember this. Remember this. I said, ‘Mexico is gonna pay for it some way.’ They gave us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. That’s more than any wall.” And Trump reiterated in a Sunday interview on Fox: “Mexico did pay. They gave me, free of charge, 28,000 soldiers.”
Christie also tweeted that Trump “only built 47 miles of new wall,” citing US Customs and Border Protection as his source. Trump responded in the Fox interview that federal authorities have actually confirmed that he “built over 500 miles of wall.”
Facts First: Christie is right and Trump is wrong about Mexico’s nonexistent role in paying for the border wall. The wall was entirely paid for by the US government, and Trump failed to fulfill his unequivocal campaign promise to get Mexico to pay for “100%” of the project; he is rewriting history when he asks people to “remember” that he said Mexico would merely pay in “some way.” The question of how many miles of wall were built is more complicated. The answer depends on which construction you decide to count – all of...
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