President Donald Trump’s months of pressure on behalf of a star Fox News guest has finally paid off: The Pentagon has awarded the talking head’s construction company a $400 million border wall construction project.
…Cue protest from losing bidders in 3…2…
Megalomania
And if we don’t perform, the President can fire us. That’s how comfortable and confident I am, is when people see what I really offer.”
oh he will fire ya.
Then you get to take him to court to try and get paid for the work already accomplished.
Dig a hole instead of building a wall.
you might find something more valuable than dealing with trump.
OMIGOD…I’m so ‘shocked’…I wonder what the kickback will be to Trump Inc.?
Corruption writ large. Donors get the spoils—ambassadorships awarded to hacks, contracts awarded in violation of government procurement rules, lifetime appointments to the Federal courts of lawyers with no experience in court, mergers and acquisitions either supported or thwarted for purely political reasons, and the list goes on.
The last guy was criticized for wearing a tan suit, but Don Corleone can do no wrong.
History will not be kind to these grifters.
Fisher and We Build The Wall, which has raised millions from donors online and counts Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach as advisers, built its first small wall segment just outside of El Paso over the summer.
Aren’t these the assclowns who built part of that private wall on the Mexico side of the border? This will not end well.
campaign photo ops
I mean, how more transparent can they make the corruption here? Remember when Republicans used to demand accountability about how Federal tax dollars were spent? Guess $400 million doesn’t buy as much spine as it used to.
This is nothing new. Republican’ts have been doing this since the day after Lincoln was shot…
The Post noted that the hydrology report that Fisher submitted for that project to the International Boundary and Water Commission — the binational commission that ultimately asked for construction to be delayed — consisted of six pages of depictions of the river that looked to be produced on basic paint-and-draw software.
Fisher has also submitted bids for a Mars landing.
Rot is rotten.
I had to submit better drawings than that to build along a swale between two residential properties.
ETA: you need to include actual slope lines created by an engineer. This stuff is ridiculously amateur.
It’s just $400,000,000 to build 31 miles of wall. At over $12 million per mile, such a bargain!
How is this at all legal?
Your OneWordAnswer™: It’sNot.
Hopefully cue the lawsuits to block project for a few years…
Bill Barr.
Yup, although it looks like they’ve already bulldozed along the river, so the big damage to the ecosystem has already been done. It’ll take literally centuries, if ever, before the destruction being wrought on the land is undone. So fucking sad.
63,000,000 of your fellow citizens ardently wanted that environmental destruction to take place.
