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Fri Feb 22, 2019, 01:06 PM Feb 2019

Donald Trump Hails 'Just Built' Border Wall, But Uses Months-Old Footage

President Donald Trump said in tweets this week that work is being done to build his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall ― but he used months-old footage of repairs on existing parts of the barrier in an effort to support his claims.

“We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico,” Trump tweeted Wednesday with a video showing workers and construction vehicles at the border. He said that portion of the wall had been completed on Jan. 30, some 47 days ahead of schedule, and that “many miles more” currently were being built.

Trump retweeted the post on Thursday and added an all-caps caption saying the wall was under construction.
However, it’s not true that the wall featured in the video had been “just built.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, whose logo appears in the bottom corner of the video Trump shared, actually produced the clip in September 2018, a spokesperson told veterans news website Task & Purpose. It shows “a replacement project” for a section of a barrier that was in place before Trump assumed office.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-border-wall-video-months-old_n_5c6fd5afe4b00eed083300af

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Donald Trump Hails 'Just Built' Border Wall, But Uses Months-Old Footage (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2019 OP
Wait, so Trump is completely full of shit and takes his followers to be MORONS?!? NO WAY!!! (nt) mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #1
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