Pits of alligators and snakes to protect the United States border with Mexico?

Stung, the president reacted on his Twitter account. "Now the press wants to make believe that I wanted pits filled with alligators and snakes, with electrified fencing and peaks at the top along the southern border, I may be hard on border security, but not so hard."

If the article New York Times was published on October 1, the two author journalists assure revealing remarks made by Donald Trump during meetings at the White House last March. At that time, the president wanted to close the border as quickly as possible. It was in the context of discussions that he envisaged – according to the New York Times – the most wacky solutions to the most cruel.

"In private, the president had often spoken of fortifying a border wall with a trench filled with water, filled with snakes or alligators." But that's not all, Donald Trump would have also considered rather morbid schemes. "He wanted the wall to be electrified, with points on top that could pierce human flesh." After publicly suggesting that soldiers would shoot migrants if they threw stones, the president withdrew when his aides told him announced that it was illegal. "

Obviously unverifiable, yet repeated by many titles of the press. Surprised by the excitement, Donald Trump ends his Tweet with a new attack on the New York Times, newspaper regularly hostile to the policies of the Republican President. "The press went crazy Fake news!"

As a reminder, building a wall on the entire border between the United States and Mexico was one of Donald Trump's main campaign promises. In the spring, the Pentagon finally released $ 1 billion to continue building a 91-kilometer stretch, thanks to a federal anti-drug law.

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