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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts) Tue Dec 3, 2019, 12:55 PM Dec 2019

North Dakota company that Trump touted gets $400 million border wall contract

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NEW: North Dakota company that Trump repeatedly and personally pushed to receive a contract to build his border wall just received a $400 million contract. Officials had previously balked at awarding bid to Fisher, owned by a GOP donor. W/@NickMiroff:

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$400 million for a few miles of something that can be readily defeated by $100 for one of these

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Sidenote, I lived in Berlin in the late 80s/early 90s. What stopped people crossing that wall wasn’ t the wall so much as the minefields, ball-bearing guns and tens of guards 24/7 per mile paid for by the communist state. This wall includes none of that.

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North Dakota company that Trump touted gets $400 million border wall contract (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 OP

We know now that the wall has always been planned as a money maker dixiegrrrrl Dec 2019 #1

'Round and 'round and 'round the money laundry spins...a juicy contract equals a campaign donation, Ford_Prefect Dec 2019 #2

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. We know now that the wall has always been planned as a money maker

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Tue Dec 3, 2019, 04:31 PM

Dec 2019

That's why trump always rejected any other possible solution to the immigration problem.

Ford_Prefect

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2. 'Round and 'round and 'round the money laundry spins...a juicy contract equals a campaign donation,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:59 AM

Dec 2019

or some other quid pro quo. Thus the GOP uses Tax money to fund its ongoing and perpetual re-election.

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