Ryan: ‘Different Ways Of Defining’ Just How Mexico Will Pay For Trump’s Wall

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks to reporters following a closed-door caucus meeting at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Tea party conser... Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks to reporters following a closed-door caucus meeting at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Tea party conservatives have blocked a budget plan backed by GOP leaders, a blow to Speaker Ryan and a reflection of the anti-Washington mood pushed by GOP front-runner Donald Trump. The move by the House Freedom Caucus, the same band of conservatives that toppled his predecessor, would mean that the House would fail to pass a budget for the first time since Republicans reclaimed control of the chamber in 2011.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) avoided saying Wednesday evening exactly how Mexico will pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the United States’ southern border, or how the President plans to get Mexico’s cooperation.

“Today he announced that he wants to begin building that wall. Who’s going to pay for it?” Greta Van Susteren asked Ryan on MSNBC’s “For The Record.”

“Well, first off, we’re going to pay for it and front the money up,” Ryan said.

He said there are “various ways” of getting Mexico to “contribute” to Trump’s signature project.

“I know your follow-up question is, is Mexico going to pay for the wall?” Ryan said. “There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this. And there are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it.”

Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer also avoided giving specific answers about funding for Trump’s wall, saying only that Mexico will pay for the wall “one way or another.”

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  1. Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “Math is mutable, has no rules and we can make it say whatever we want.”

  2. The entire GOP is now,

    “Je suis Trump!”

  3. Alternative fact time…

  4. So now we have “alternative facts” and “different ways of defining”. These people are fucking insane, and there’s almost nothing we can do to stop this.

  5. How does one say “Your’re lying Ryan” and " magical asterisk" in Spanish?

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