Trump: Didn’t tape Comey conversation

Washington: US President Donald Trump admitted on Thursday that he did not have recordings of his private meetings with fired FBI director James Comey, after maintaining the explosive claim of secret Oval Office tapes for weeks.

Washington, June 22 : US President Donald Trump pitched a new concept to his supporters for the wall he intends to erect on the Mexican border: cover it with solar panels, and use the energy to cover construction costs.

“Yes, we will build a wall,” he told a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

“We have to stop the drugs from flowing in.”

“I will give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet,” he said.

“The southern border. Lots of sun, lots of heat. We are thinking about building a wall as a solar wall. So it creates energy. And pays for itself.” And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money. And that’s good. Right?” quipped the President, whose initial pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall has met with stiff resistance from America’s southern neighbour.

“Think of it, the higher it goes, the more valuable it is,” he enthused.

“Pretty good imagination, right? My idea!”

The US administration put out a call for proposals several months ago for the construction of

We are thinking about building a wall as a solar wall. So, it creates energy. And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money — Donald Trump, US President

the border wall, one of which, submitted by a Las Vegas businessman named Tom Gleason, involved using solar panels. The Trump administration has yet to make headway on Mr Trump’s emblematic but hugely costly campaign pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border.

The US Congress has so far refused to commit funding to the project, agreeing only to finance maintenance on existing parts of the border fence.