Trump rips private Texas border wall built by his supporters
Houston – President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though the wall was built after a months-long campaign by his supporters.
The group that raised money online for the wall promoted itself as supporting Trump during a government shutdown that started in December 2018 because Congress wouldn’t fund Trump’s demands for a border wall. Called “We Build the Wall,” the group has raised more than $25 million promoting itself as supporting the president.
Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon joined the group’s board and Trump ally Kris Kobach became its general counsel. Kobach is now seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas.
The company that built the private section in January, North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, has since won a $1.3 billion border wall contract from the federal government, the largest award to date.
The section in question is a roughly 3-mile fence of steel posts just 35 feet from the Rio Grande, the river that forms the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. That’s much closer to the river than the government ordinarily builds border barriers in South Texas because of concerns about erosion and flooding that could violate U.S. treaty obligations with Mexico.
Trump tweeted Sunday in response to a ProPublica-Texas Tribune report that the riverbank has started to erode. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered attorneys for Fisher Industries and opponents of the private wall to set a schedule for experts to visit the site and inspect any erosion.
“I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads,” Trump wrote. “It was only done to make me look bad, and perhsps it now doesn’t even work. Should have been built like rest of Wall, 500 plus miles.”
Tommy Fisher, CEO of Fisher Industries, said Sunday that he thought the president “just got some misinformation on this stuff” and that he had “complete respect” for Trump.
Fisher acknowledged that there had been some erosion on the land in front of the fencing caused by rain and the natural flow of the river. He said his crews planned to install more organic material to fill the gaps or insert rock if erosion continues, but that other parts of the wall remained untouched.
“The wall will stand for 150 years, you mark my words,” Fisher said.
Experts and people who live and work near the property have warned that building so close to the river would cause flooding or a break in the fence. And a binational commission earlier this year found that the project violates U.S. treaty obligations and called on Fisher to make changes.
Marianna Trevino Wright, executive director of the nonprofit National Butterfly Center, has long opposed the project and warned it could damage the center, which is adjacent to where the private wall was being built.
“It is troubling that President Trump admits to prior knowledge of this project – one he should have insisted comply with U.S. law, rather than proceed in violation of it,” she said Sunday.
Originally promoted by We Build the Wall, the private section instead became a showcase for Fisher, who has promoted his company heavily on Fox News and conservative media. We Build the Wall ultimately provided about $1.5 million for the project and Kobach said in a previous court hearing that his group was mostly providing “social media cheerleading.” We Build the Wall’s founder, Brian Kolfage, did not return a phone message Sunday.
In May, Fisher Industries won a $1.3 billion contract to build 42 miles of wall in Arizona. The wall will be painted black because “that’s what the president wanted, plain and simple,” said U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, in May. Cramer said then that he personally pitched the company to Trump.
Another $400 million contract Fisher won last year was placed under review by the defense department’s inspector general.
This is interesting, because every time I have ever seen Donald asked about his father, he has always gone on and on about how fantastic he was.
:)
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:29 am
by mvscal
No doubt she would be singing a different song if she hadn't been cut out of his will. The bitter bitch doth protest too much and has zero credibility.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:33 am
by Softball Bat
Why does she have zero credibility?
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:13 am
by Kierland
mvscal wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:29 am
No doubt she would be singing a different song if she hadn't been cut out of his will. The bitter bitch doth protest too much and has zero credibility.
Because Dumps don’t have integrity and are all driven by money.
Great job pedokkkal
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:03 pm
by mvscal
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:33 am
Why does she have zero credibility?
Other than her idolizing Shitlery and already having numerous anecdotes in her book debunked. The guy she said Trump hired to take his SAT didn't meet Trump until they were in college.
And what part of cut out of the will did you not understand?
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:16 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Wow, and in comes running mvscunt, mouth agape, as expected.
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:33 am
Why does she have zero credibility?
Other than her idolizing Shitlery and already having numerous anecdotes in her book debunked. The guy she said Trump hired to take his SAT didn't meet Trump until they were in college.
And what part of cut out of the will did you not understand?
1. Being a fan of Hillary does not disqualify a person from recognizing that Donald is a sociopath.
2. What was debunked?
3. She admits that she does not have direct evidence that Donald paid the Shapiro guy to take the SAT. She said that a person she trusts told her that.
4. Why would being shut out of the will shoot down her credibility?
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:33 am
Why does she have zero credibility?
Other than her idolizing Shitlery and already having numerous anecdotes in her book debunked. The guy she said Trump hired to take his SAT didn't meet Trump until they were in college.
Because she wasn't talking about him. Get your facts straight. You know like 14yo is NOT the age of consent.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:27 am
by Kierland
88nazis all think this is a good idea.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:36 am
by Screw_Michigan
Kierland wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:27 am
88nazis all think this is a good idea.
Yep, very faschy
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:26 am
by Kierland
He is a nazi but even he could see the writing on the wall. He knew his orange sperm donor was about to go Adolf on his citizens. That is why he is in the bunker. One of the top three melts in board history for sure. If not the GOAT.
As for the rest: Shedick is on board so long as they don’t come for his weed.
BrokenPsyche got his tax cut obviously.
Holic is too stupid to see past his fear of everyone smarter than him, which is a shit ton of people.
Duhron is down so long as they leave his meth alone.
Wolftard is living in 1952.
Penis and Pikkkle were just props for The Process.
Who did I forget?
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:21 am
by Softball Bat
Mvscal
But that is a good list and evaluation.
The "conservatives" on the board long ago failed to convince anyone with a shred of common sense that they are doing anything other than propping up a very pathetic cult of personality.
In 2016 Donald adeptly tapped into a deep, resentful strain of xenophobia that was largely hidden under the surface in America.
Many who supported him have jumped off the wagon because the have recognized that he is a grossly incompetent fraud.
Yet Donald retains a devoted, xenophobic base who actually view him as a sort of messianic figure who is the last resistance against the deep state powers who seek to bring whitey down and trap him within a socialist new world order.
The Dump apologists on our board have these concepts rattling around in their heads.
Donald doesn't give a single shit about grunts like them, and that is one of the funniest things about this whole spectacle.
Don is a blackmailed man-boy, and right now ALL he can think about is November.
He desperately fears what will happen to him if he does not gain his 2nd term.
He is a mentally ill little worm, and the fact that an entire party continues to uphold him is quite honestly the most ridiculous thing I have seen in politics in my lifetime.
And the fact that "whitey" sees him as a messianic figure is equally absurd.
This is all symptomatic of a failing nation.
Biden himself is of no help.
FAT Amerika is fvkked.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:58 am
by Kierland
Pedokkkal was run.
He only showed up there for a while while my account was “experiencing technical difficulties.”
He has gone back to driveby/.pedo mode.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:26 pm
by Left Seater
To JSC's question, if the locals don't want the Feds help, then the Feds should back off.
However, if it gets to a point like the CHOP/CHAZ did in Seattle and the mayor and others just say the hell with it, and residents or business owners want help, then the Feds should step in.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:33 pm
by Kierland
So you still haven’t read the Constitution. It’s really not that long, you should try it sometime.
It'll be interesting to see which Trump supporters stick to their mask hatred and which ones just do a quick about face and say they always knew it.
No one knew masks were patriotic until Trump started saying it.
It was funny seeing MAGA Traitors whining and crying on Twitter about how they can't wear masks because of medical conditions and how they're all confused and scared now.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:49 pm
by Bill in Houston
They’ve ALWAYS been confused and scared.
They fear they will be marginalized and become insignificant. This is the orange rhetoric of fear and hatred that inspires the unintelligent followers.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:03 pm
by Kierland
And they will be marginalized if race is taken out of the equation because they are marginal and they will never understand that they don’t need to be scared of more people in the “middle” class if they would just reign in a few robber barons. But then they are stupid so that will never happen. Racists for life.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:27 pm
by FiatLux
A question for the Trump supporters here.
It seems most have avoided this topic like the plague, don't want to dicuss it and have run to 88's bunker.
"Trump is amazing, masks suck"
"Trump is amazing, masks are important"
Which one of those is you ?
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:33 pm
by Softball Bat
Masks make Wolfman's glasses fog up.
:)
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:02 pm
by Mikey
He's a fucking genius I tell you.
Not only this:
Trump says coronavirus pandemic will ‘probably, unfortunately’ get worse before it gets better
He also passed the cognitive test with flying colors. Aced it. The scientists say that nobody ever did better on this test.
Except that you're supposed to "ace" it unless you have dementia. Passing that test, if you don't have dementia, is like passing a sobriety test if you're not drunk. Not sure Trump could pull that one off, though.
Seinfeld creator Larry David is kind of on the fence.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:55 am
by Screw_Michigan
FiatLux wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:18 am
Seinfeld creator Larry David is kind of on the fence.
Good for Larry. Also sure there are few Trump fans who watch his show. Too intelligent, not lowbrow enough for your average mouth breathing Trumpster.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:16 pm
by Screw_Michigan
It's not every day the president of the United States wishes well to an alleged child sex trafficker that he admits he met multiple times over the years. We cannot flush Donald Trump and all his enablers down the toilet fast enough.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:09 pm
by Kierland
The people who supported him here will be living with that vote for a long time, at least the ones that are not in a bunker by now.
Who would have thought that this is all it would take to get trump's feds to retreat in about 10 minutes.
Rack her.
She's a distraction and a performance artist showing how far off the rails the protests have become.
She's a white woman who actively had white men protect her -- against her will, mind you -- from a police force which did made no move to engage her and was far in the background.
What does a performance artist shooing a boy with a shield away so she can spread her legs without opposition have to do with murdered black men?
Nothing.
She's part of the problem, not part of a solution.
She was flaunting her place on the pedestal, not dismantling it. She proved status quo, not challenged it.
Others pointed out the star of david on her foot, and the significance of the cap on her head. More Soros bullshit.
Performance art. Not protest. Not relevant to murdered civilians. She is the 2 minute warning to the MSM to be prepared to focus on something else.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:58 pm
by Mikey
The whole jack booted federal police crackdown is Trump's version of performance art.
So what's your point?
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:23 pm
by Kierland
She never has a point except to excuse damn near every shit thing that happens.
Re: Trump pisses in his supporters' faces
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:51 pm
by Innocent Bystander
Mikey wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:58 pm
The whole jack booted federal police crackdown is Trump's version of performance art.
