boasted of building the “Rolls Royce” of walls during a visit to a segment of border barrier in Montezuma Pass, Ariz. last week. Just one problem: That segment of wall was actually built by the administration of President , according .
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the portion where Trump spoke was built under the Obama Administration, the Post added. The newspaper said a nearby extension was started under the Trump administration ― at a cost of $35 million a mile ― but didn’t get very far, with much of the construction material left in piles at the site. Trump in 2016 repeatedly vowed to build a “big beautiful wall” across the nearly 2,000-mile U.
S.-Mexico border if elected. He has claimed that he completed the task.
“I did finish the wall,” earlier this year. “I built a wall.” He didn’t.
His administration replaced about 400 miles of existing wall and . Some of the wall built under Trump . A the wall built under Trump was breached thousand of times using “inexpensive power tools.
” Others reported the wall could be made from about $5 in material. A report last year also found it did to the region. Trump also promised Mexico would pay for his wall.
It didn’t..
