Trump claims US would be 'inundated' with Covid-19 were it not for border wall

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump claims US would be 'inundated' with Covid-19 were it not for border wall

President made remark hours after his Mexican counterpart thanked him for not bringing subject up in public

David Agren in Mexico City
Fri 10 Jul 2020 22.46 BST
First published on Fri 10 Jul 2020 16.31 BST

Donald Trump has claimed that the US would be “inundated” with coronavirus, were it not for new sections of the border wall – mere hours after his Mexican counterpart thanked him for avoiding the thorny subject during a summit meeting this week.

Addressing anti-narcotics officials, the US president claimed that the 250 miles of fencing erected on the frontier since he took office had stopped coronavirus spreading.

“It turned out to be very lucky for us that we had the wall or we would have been inundated because they have some big problems there [in Mexico],” Trump said, although he offered no evidence to support his claim.

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Andrés Manuel López Obrador met Trump in Washington on Wednesday, lauding him for treating Mexico with “respect” and “understanding.” On Friday, the president, known as Amlo, repeated his thanks to the US president for striking a less “discriminatory tone”.

“We thank him for not raising the subject [of the border wall] in public,” Amlo said, although he acknowledged that it was mentioned during a White House dinner.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/10/amlo-trump-us-mexico-meeting-no-wall-mention

[Stuart G]

1. If Trump actually said this, ?It could be one of his stupidest, dumbest, idiotic statements, ever!

....Donald Trump doesn't know the meaning of the word..."inundated"...?

Donald Trump proves he is more stupid than we thought he was....(is that possible?)

[Midnight Writer]

10. Not stupid at all. A calculated lie.

I guarantee that I will hear this lie repeated by a Trump supporter within the next week.

[safeinOhio]

2. Good thing Mexico paid for it and

those 15 cases we had are now down to one or zero.

[Nevilledog]

3. The three fucking, falling down, new miles of wall?

[Thomas Hurt]

4. That isn't Trump's wall, that is some jackass' private wall.

[Nevilledog]

7. More info

Nearly all 216 miles built since Trump took office replaced outdated or dilapidated fencing. Only about “three miles of new border wall system [have been] constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 status report on the wall.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-23/trump-campaigns-on-border-wall-progress-theres-not-much-of-it

Right on the three new miles, but you are correct about the falling down part being privately funded.

[42bambi]

5. Falling down - the con does not care, he's already got his kickback.

[Nevilledog]

8. True dat

[Iliyah]

6. The USA is inundated with COVID-19, dumbass . .

[sop]

9. I thought Trump said it came from China?

[keithbvadu2]

11. Excuse/lie # 4 zillion.