During a press convention at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his criticisms of the Biden administration for promoting off border wall supplies at “5 cents on the greenback,” saying: “These individuals both hate our nation or they’re silly.”
He additionally slammed the personal firm managing the border wall sales for making an attempt to promote the supplies again to his incoming administration at a big upcharge.
“You know what they had been doing. They had been calling us up and saying: ‘We’ll promote it again to you at 200 cents.’ In different phrases, double what we paid for it,” he mentioned. “So, they had been going to purchase it from this man [President Joe Biden] for 5 cents on the greenback. They had been making offers.”
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The Biden administration has been auctioning off border wall components since a minimum of 2023, with components listed on the market on public sale marketplaces, after it abruptly shut down most border wall development in 2021.
An official on the Department of Defense informed Fox News Digital in December that the supplies being offered via on-line auctions had been already offered off by the federal authorities earlier in 2024, with a big proportion of the supplies being offered to a authorities surplus retailer referred to as Gov Planet.
Following a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the Biden administration agreed to a court order to stop further wall material sales.
Speaking in December, Trump mentioned the Biden administration’s border wall gross sales had been “almost a criminal act” that will price American taxpayers “lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.”
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Piles of unused border fence sit at one of many border wall development staging areas on the Johnson Ranch close to Columbus, N.M., on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by way of Getty Images)
Trump mentioned on Tuesday the personal retailer was “calling us, asking us to pay them 200 cents as a result of it is a whole lot as a result of we will have it instantly.”
But to this, Trump mentioned: “You know what ‘instantly’ is? Just depart it in place.”
“Fortunately, we had a really sensible choose that stopped it chilly,” he went on. “But consider it. They had been promoting the wall. That was precisely the wall that the Border Patrol needed that was designed by them: metal, concrete, rebar… Everything was prime of the road, very costly. It can be double what we paid for it then, six years in the past.”
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President Donald Trump excursions a piece of the border wall, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in San Luis, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speaking of the Biden administration, Trump mentioned: “These individuals both hate our nation or they’re very silly.”
“They had been promoting the wall for 5 cents on the greenback and making an attempt to resell it again to us for 200 cents, or much less, however for 200 cents on the greenback.” he mentioned. “That deal is like all the opposite issues that these individuals do.”
