'They did it to make me look bad': Trump condemned the construction of a border wall section by his supporters - ForumDaily
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'They did it to make me look bad': Trump condemned the construction by his supporters of a section of the border wall

On July 12, US President Donald Trump announced that he did not approve of the construction of a Texas-built private border site that was funded by a group of supporters, claiming that "it was just to make me look bad." This site may be unstable due to erosion, writes USA Today.

Construction of a private fragment of the wall. Photo: Shutterstock

“I do not agree with the construction of this very small (tiny) section of the wall in a difficult area by a private group raising money from advertising. It was just to make me look bad and now it doesn't even work. It was supposed to be built like the rest of the wall, 500+ miles long,” the president wrote on Twitter.

His tweet provided a link to an article in the ProPublica and Texas Tribune, which says that a 3-mile (4,8 km) stretch of steel fence 18 feet (5,5 m), built on the banks of the Rio Grande, runs the risk of collapse.

A group called We Build the Wall raised money to privately build part of the fence, in response to “politicians on both sides obstructing President Trump’s plan to build a wall on our southern border.”

It all started as a GoFundMe campaign, created by Brian Kolfadzhe in December 2018 against the backdrop of the closure of the government, caused by Congress's reluctance to approve the funds that Trump asked for the construction of a new border wall. This wall was a central part of the 2016 presidential campaign. Coalfage later registered the group as a nonprofit organization that raised over $ 25 million.

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The organization’s board includes former White House adviser Steve Bannon, and Trump's ally, Chris Kobach, has become his chief legal adviser. It is unclear why Trump believes that the wall section that the group helped build was designed to make him “look bad.”

Following Trump's tweet, Kolfage published his own statement stating that the private section of the wall was approved by the presidential administration.

“The private wall that @WeBuildtheWall built and funded is @DHSgov @CBP approved and authorized by [Department of Homeland Security and US Customs and Border Protection]. Never forget that,” Kolfage said.

We Build the Wall built a wall, providing about $ 1,5 million for a $ 42 million project in Mission, Texas.

Fisher Industries, a North Dakota-based company, received a $ 1,3 billion federal contract for the construction of the Arizona border wall, which is the largest such contract to date. Another $ 400 million contract won by Fisher last year was reviewed by the inspector general of the Department of Defense.

Fisher Industries CEO Tommy Fisher told The Associated Press that he has “full respect” for Trump, but believes he “just got some misinformation about all this.” He acknowledged that erosion did indeed form around the fence, built about 35 feet (10,6 meters) from the Rio Grande, the river that defines the US-Mexico border through Texas. But he said that his company is solving this problem.

“The wall will stand for 150 years, mark my words,” Fischer predicted.

Fisher touted the barrier built by his company as Lamborghini among the walls, promising that he could build the wall faster and better than the government, and used it as a showcase to win more federal contracts.

We Build the Wall promoted the construction of the Mission section of the wall as "the world's first border barrier in the state of Texas that is actually built within a few feet of the border, rather than several miles away, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done for decades."

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But engineers who saw signs of erosion told the ProPublica and Texas Tribune that there were good reasons not to build a wall so close to the river.

“As the river rises, it will likely enter areas where foundations are exposed, further weakening the support of the barrier and possibly causing areas ... to flow into the Rio Grande,” Alex Mayer, an engineering professor at University of Texas at El Paso, according to a report from ProPublica and the Tribune.

Building near the river has also led the US government to sue Fisher Industries on behalf of the International Border and Water Commission, claiming that building a wall at this site violates international treaties governing the use of the river.

On July 8, a federal judge issued a decree requiring Fisher Industries lawyers and opponents to build a private wall site to schedule an expert visit and erosion inspection.

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