Fact-Check of the Day; Trump Misleadingly Says Construction Has Already Begun on His Border Wall

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Trump just keeps lying about this issue. over and over and over #TrumpSWAMP

Fact-Check of the Day
Trump Misleadingly Says Construction Has Already Begun on His Border Wall

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/us/politics/trump-misleadingly-says-construction-has-already-begun-on-his-border-wall.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

The Border Patrol has begun replacing old barriers with new barriers — which some call walls and others fencing. But construction on a 1,000-mile border wall has not begun.

By Linda Qiu
May 11, 2018

What Was Said

“We have already begun construction on the wall.”

— President Trump at a rally in Indiana on Thursday

The Facts
This is misleading.

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In Calexico, the agency said it would replace 2.5 miles of a barrier made out of “recycled scraps of metal and old landing mat” with a 30-foot-high bollard-style “wall.” But local officials have characterized it as a long-planned local infrastructure project that “isn’t Trump’s wall.”

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Mr. Trump received nearly $1.6 billion in funding for border security in the spending bill he signed in late March. The spending bill specifies that the $1.6 billion can fund only “operationally effective designs deployed” before May 2017. This definition would disqualify building a wall based on the prototypes that were unveiled in October.

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1. Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. He's a liar. Cover him assuming that.

The president deserves no more benefit of the doubt. He’s a liar and lies nearly every time he opens his mouth.


The NYT needs to start ASSUMING what he says is a lie and reporting with surprise if he tells the truth.