Trump willing to pardon wrongdoing if it relates to building the wall faster – Washington Examiner

President Trump is reportedly willing to pardon subordinates if they break laws in an attempt to build the wall along the U.S. southern border faster.

Officials told the Washington Post that Trump wants hundreds of miles of the border barrier erected before the 2020 election and is willing to pardon wrongdoing if laws are broken in the process.

“Don’t worry, I’ll pardon you,” Trump told officials during a meeting about the wall.

White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley did not deny the report but called internal criticisms of Trump “fabrications.”

“Donald Trump promised to secure our border with sane, rational immigration policies to make American communities safer, and that’s happening everywhere the wall is being built,” Gidley said, adding that internal criticisms “are just more fabrications by people who hate the fact the status quo, that has crippled this country for decades, is finally changing as President Trump is moving quicker than anyone in history to build the wall, secure the border and enact the very immigration policies the American people voted for.”

Trump’s urgency to build the wall comes as no new miles of wall have been created during his presidency. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed last month that all built fencing was done to replace “dilapidated designs.”

The president is hoping to speed up the process to fulfill his promise to “build the wall” before the 2020 election.

“He said people expected him to build a wall, and it had to be done by the election,” a former official said.