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In practice, it‘s not that hard to do and should work pretty much the same as the big wall the Mexicans paid.

ex·tor·tion

noun

the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

is taxation extortion?

No.

like this https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-amazon-cloud/amazon...

It's Trump running his mouth. Charitably, I think he does this to throw out trial balloons. Once he finds out they won't fly, he abandons them. But if you don't ask, they won't give it to you.