President Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning about his plans to build a wall with Mexico by comparing it to the wall dividing Israel with the West Bank.
“People want protection,” he said, “and a wall protects. All you have to do is ask Israel...”
President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May in the East Room of the White House.
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AP
Israelis and Palestinians have long been at the center of a bitter dispute over territory both groups claim as their rightful homeland. Many Israelis claim a physical barrier between Israel and the West Bank is necessary for protection from Palestinian attacks. Palestinians say the wall allows Israelis to annex more land and create hardship. In 2004, the International Court of Justice at The Hague determined the wall to be illegal.
Shortly afterward, Donald Trump tweeted that he looks forward to seeing the final results of VoteStand, a “mobile anti-vote fraud app” started by Gregg Phillips of True the Vote, a self-proclaimed “voters’ rights and election integrity organization” who made unverifiable claims about busloads of people showing up to register and vote. Phillipps was on CNN this morning claiming he had proof there were 3,000,000 votes cast illegally in the 2016 presidential election, but has yet to provide any proof.
Systemic voter fraud claims have been examined multiple times and have been repeatedly rebuffed by experts and the nation’s secretaries of state.
President Trump also tweeted that Mexico “had taken advantage”of the United States on “trade deficits,” and called for change on the “very weak border.”