Hours after visiting the Mexican president in Mexico and not talking about the wall, Donald Trump showed up in Arizona reiterating that he will build the wall and that Mexico will pay for it.
Well, he didn't come back with a check so, if worse comes to worse and Trump is elected president, that might mean that the wall gets built with American taxpayer money and then Mexico gets sent a bill, likely 30 days net which is typical in construction. What happens if Mexico Trumps Trump?
Trump has a history of Trumping contractors and small businesses. After the work is performed, he has his lawyers tell the contractors that they are not satisfied with the work and they offer to pay cents on the dollar for the job. If they don't accept those terms, they can take Trump and his lawyers on retainer to court and try their luck there. He has done this dozens of times to dozens of American contractors. Maybe hundreds of times to hundreds of American contractors. I'm pretty sure he's known for this in the rest of the world, as well.
I wish even one journalist would ask Trump how he would handle getting Trumped.
Mind you, Mexico has no legal obligation to pay for the wall. Mind you again that they never said they would pay for that wall or any wall. They never even hinted that they'd go halfsies. In fact, Mexican President, Enrique Pena Nieto, told Trump he will not pay for the wall.
You can build an addition to your house and you can say that the guy down the street is going to pay for it but, you can't make him pay for it. I don't care how many times you say it or how matter-a-fact authoritatively you say it, you can't make someone else pay for something they have no part of doing. As squirrelly as our courts can be, that's just not going to happen. You can be the best attorney in the world and write the best sex stories on Topix and you cannot pull that off. This is a country where a grown man can rape a woman, get his swimming times posted in the newspaper account of his crime, and only serve three months of a six month sentence. That will happen every fucking day in American criminal courts but, if you want to rape someone in a business deal, you better be more prepared than having good swim times. We are a nation of laws, my friends.
Trump can't build that wall. Even if worse comes to worser and he becomes president (of the US- he's only polling at 4% in Mexico) even a republican congress won't let him build that wall. It's just not going to ever happen no matter how many times he says "Believe me".
Of course, Trump's minions could be contracted to build that wall. Privatize everything, ya know. Wouldn't it be delicious irony watching the people from Texas to Appalachia who voted him in get Trumped by their president? They'd never see it coming! Believe me.
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