Trump Takes Credit for Obama's Border Wall
On Friday, President Donald Trump stood in front of recently-refurbished border wall along the California-Mexico border and boasted that it was the beginning of construction on the wall he promised voters in the 2016 campaign. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen installed commemorative plaque bearing Trumps name last fall along that section of the fencing, declaring it the first section of President Trumps border wall.
Except, wait: That particular section of wall was actually just a replacement of fence that had been there for decades. And the refurbishment was approved during the Barack Obama administration in 2009. The funding for Trumps border wall, meanwhile, is still tied up in Congress.
We just wanted to get out in front of it and let everybody know that this is a local tactical infrastructure project that was planned for quite some time, David Kim, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrols El Centro sector, told the Desert Sun, adding that he wanted to ensure there is no confusion about whether
this is tied to some of the bigger immigration debates that are currently going on.
A recent federal court victory allowed the Trump administration to move forward with replacing the fencing thanks to a federal ruling allowing them to bypass environmental laws to speed construction. And the president boastfully tweeted about it recently, again claiming it was part of the Wall.
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That's the story of Trump's life.