Trump reportedly gave 'We Build The Wall' his blessing and tried to steer a $1 billion contract to its builder by AndrewSolender
on Thursday along with fellow ‘We Build The Wall’ organizers Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea for what federal prosecutors describe as a “scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors” on the pretense of building a private border wall in response to Congress blocking Trump’s efforts.
“I don't know anything about the project at all,” Trump said Thursday, while adding that he doesn’t like what he read about it and thinks it’s “showboating” by Bannon and Kolfage, according toWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany doubled down on Trump’s claims in a statement, asserting that Trump has “no involvement” in the project and “disagreed” with efforts to build the wall privately, noting that Trump has “always felt” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should build the wall.
But Trump and McEnany’s statements belie claims by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the general counsel of We Build The Wall, in January 2019 that Trump gave the project his “
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