President-elect Donald Trump spared no one in the Biden administration for conducting sales of materials that were bought with the intent to build a border wall after an investigation by The Daily Wire, accusing them of committing an “almost criminal act” and going on to say that he is going to strike back by seeking a restraining order. This would prevent Biden from selling off the border wall, which, we can assume, Trump is going to resume once he’s in office next month.
Clearly, Biden and his people are trying to make as big of a mess as possible before the new administration takes power so that they can make it harder for the MAGA agenda to be put in place. That’s pretty much the definition of “petty,” which the vast majority of liberals are. Yes, I’m painting with rather broad strokes, but that doesn’t make the statement any less true.
“Trump made the statement after a Daily Wire investigation revealed that the Biden administration was selling off portions of the border wall in public auctions, with a goal of unloading the border wall before Trump takes office in January. One Republican Senator found that the administration was recouping just 0.2% of the original cost of the wall material to taxpayers,” the Daily Wire reported.
“The administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar knowing that we’re getting ready to put it up,” Trump went on to explain in a press conference. “What they’re doing … It’s almost a criminal act. They know that we’re going to use it and if we don’t have it we’re going to have to rebuild it and it will cost double what it cost years ago and that’s hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“I spoke with the Attorney General of Texas, I spoke with the Senators of Texas, I spoke to a lot of people and hopefully they’ll be able to stop it. We’re going to be having a restraining order,” Trump then said. “I am asking Joe Biden today to please stop selling the wall.”
President Trump on the Biden administration selling off sections of his border wall: "Now it's about double the price of what it would've been six years ago, and the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar… It's almost a criminal act." pic.twitter.com/F4PHAe1G9Z
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 16, 2024
The president-elect then said that some who are purchasing the pieces and materials have done so at three cents on the dollar, then offered to sell it back to Trump for hundreds of dollars a foot.
“That has nothing to do with a smooth transition that has to do with people really trying to stop our nation. And all it means really is that we’re going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more, not even talking about the time,” the president-elect commented on the scheme. “We’ll spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall that we already have.”
President Trump on the Biden administration selling off sections of his border wall: "Now it's about double the price of what it would've been six years ago, and the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar… It's almost a criminal act." pic.twitter.com/F4PHAe1G9Z
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 16, 2024
Trump’s remarks on the situation come after GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt from Missouri wrote up a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he stop auctioning off the border wall right away.
“While recouping less than 0.02% of taxpayer money used to secure these materials, the Biden Administration is sabotaging the incoming Trump Administration just weeks ahead of President Trump’s inauguration,” the Senator said in the letter. “These border wall materials will cost tens of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to replace and will be critical to stem the record flow of millions of illegal immigrants who were welcomed across our border during the Biden Administration.”