https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.htmlQuote
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal.
Even in the era of anonymous sources rusing WaPo/NYT and them credulously posting uncorroborated nonsense, I'm mystified at how editors gave this the green light to get published
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They actually think Trump was ordering staffers to build a snake-filled trench with an electrified spiked wall