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https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.htmlTake the land: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.
By Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey
August 27 at 9:04 PM
President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to current and former officials involved with the project.
He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.
Trump has repeatedly promised to complete 500 miles of fencing by the time voters go to the polls in November 2020, stirring chants of Finish the Wall! at his political rallies as he pushes for tighter border controls. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed just about 60 miles of replacement barrier during the first 2½ years of Trumps presidency, all of it in areas that previously had border infrastructure.
The president has told senior aides that a failure to deliver on the signature promise of his 2016 campaign would be a letdown to his supporters and an embarrassing defeat. With the election 14 months away and hundreds of miles of fencing plans still in blueprint form, Trump has held regular meetings at the White House to receive progress updates and hasten the pace, according to several people involved in the discussions.
When aides have suggested that some of his orders are illegal or unworkable, Trump has suggested he would pardon the officials if they would just go ahead, aides said. He has waved off worries about contracting procedures and the use of eminent domain, saying take the land, according to officials present at the meetings.
Dont worry, Ill pardon you, he has told officials in meetings about the wall.
He said people expected him to build a wall, and it had to be done by the election, one former official said.
spanone
(135,829 posts)sdfernando
(4,931 posts)Impeachment is necessary!
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)world wide wally
(21,741 posts)RockRaven
(14,962 posts)It cannot be as harmful electorally as Democratic reps seem to be concerned about... can it?
[Gingrich/Clinton is a) an awful comparison and b) not even historically accurate when it comes to the purported blowback.]
tanyev
(42,552 posts)LOL. Everyone close to him thats gotten in trouble so far has been thrown under the bus. Who? I barely know that guy.
UTUSN
(70,684 posts)by all the cash thrown away for the "wall" FOR NOTHING and by all the lost economy because of his policies, and they AIN'T GONNA BE HAPPY WITH 500 or whatever pieces of wall!1
Quackers
(2,256 posts)Sounds like a good political ad to me.
Takket
(21,563 posts)I wouldnt do that for someone I trust, let alone a drumpf scumbag!!!!
procon
(15,805 posts)to brea. Nixon was such an amateur compared to Trump. His offer of a pardon still means they would have to admit their guilt in committing crimes. It's hard for ex felons to find jobs, but maybe his loyalists will throw away their future for their love of Trump.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)What does this man have to do to get impeached by the House ? I'm serious. I want to know what is your line in the sand ?
He is destroying this country. I'm sick and tired of excuses.
DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.
BigmanPigman
(51,585 posts)This should not be about politics...he is NOT above the law. Fuck this shit!!!!!!!
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)He's commanding people to break the law
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Telling someone to break the law, but say they'd be bailed out?