HOUSTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has criticized a privately built border wall in the Rio Grande Valley that’s showing signs of erosion months after it was completed.
The three-mile structure was built by Tommy Fischer, who was awarded a $1.7 billion contract to build more walls, after a Trump supporting group raised money online for the fence, according to the Texas Tribune.
The group raised the money during a government shutdown that began in December 2018 when Congress wouldn’t fund a border wall.
Trump tweeted Sunday, that he thinks it was “only done to make me look bad,” after a ProPublica-Texas Tribune report found the riverbank has started to erode.
I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads. It was only done to make me look bad, and perhsps it now doesn’t even work. Should have been built like rest of Wall, 500 plus miles. https://t.co/L8RUPCAhqc
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2020
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