Walls, swamps and ‘lock her up’

Re “Who will pay for Trump’s wall?” Jan. 7

Donald Trump hasn’t even been inaugurated and already he is publicly reneging on one of his biggest pledges: that Mexico, not us, will pay for the border wall that could cost $38 billion. Now we learn that Americans will have to pay and somehow Trump will get those billions from Mexico, notwithstanding the fact that current and past presidents of Mexico have said it won’t happen.

I am also waiting for Trump to fulfill his pledge to “lock her up.” I await his appointment of a special prosecutor to bring charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email system for government business.

Finally, I am waiting on Trump to “drain the swamp” now that he proposes to fill his Cabinet with people from Wall Street. Silly me; here I was thinking that these people, responsible for crashing the U.S. economy, were part of the swamp. Frances Hayward Laguna Niguel

Trump is a multibillionaire. He should pay for the wall.

To ask Congress to provide funding to start it, expecting American taxpayers to front the money when our infrastructure is falling apart, is ridiculous. Our roads, bridges, transit, schools and other fundamentals are in need of our taxpayer money, not a wall that Trump wants.

As for Mexico reimbursing us for it, its president has said his country won’t do it. If Trump wants the wall so badly, he can pay for it. Barbara Graham Dana Point

More than 30 years ago I visited the “independent” country of Hungary. One could spot the border because of the giant fences along it thoughtfully provided by the Soviet Union.

And it worked, protecting the Soviet Union from collapse. I think we all remember Ronald Reagan in Berlin boldly stating, “Mr. Gorbachev, build that wall higher and we will pay for it.” Kevin Wilby La Crescenta