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During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago this Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his criticism of the Biden administration for selling border wall materials at “five cents on the dollar,” saying, “These people either hate our country or are stupid.”
He also criticized the private company that runs it sale of the border wall to try to sell the materials to your incoming administration at a significant surcharge.
“You know what they were doing. They called us and said: “We will sell it back to you for 200 cents”. In other words, double what we paid for it,” he said. “Then they were going to buy it from this guy (President Joe Biden) for five cents on the dollar. They were making deals.”
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The Biden administration has been auctioning off pieces of the border wall since at least 2023, with pieces for sale on auction markets, after abruptly shutting down most border wall construction in 2021.
An official of the Department of Defense told Fox News Digital in December that materials being sold through online auctions had already been sold by the federal government in early 2024, with a large percentage of the materials sold to a government surplus retailer called Gov Planet.
Following a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Biden administration agreed to a court order to stop further sales of wall material.
Speaking in December, Trump said the Biden administration’s border wall sales were “almost a criminal act” this would cost American taxpayers “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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Stacks of unused border fences sit in one of the border wall construction staging areas at Johnson Ranch near Columbus, NM, Monday, April 12, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Trump said Tuesday that the private retailer “was calling us, asking us to pay them 200 cents because it’s a good deal because we can have it right away.”
But to that, Trump said: “You know what ‘immediately’ is? Just leave it in place.”
“Luckily, we had a very smart judge who stopped it cold,” he continued. “But think about it. They were selling the wall. It was exactly the wall that the Border Patrol wanted, they designed it: steel, concrete, rebar. . . . Everything was top-of-the-line, very expensive. It would be twice what us. I paid for it then, six years ago.”
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President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in San Luis, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speaking of the Biden administration, Trump said: “These people either hate our country or they are very stupid.”
“They were selling the wall for five cents on the dollar and trying to resell it to us for 200 cents, or less, but 200 cents on the dollar.” he said “This deal is like everything else these people do.”
