Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon's We Build the Wall sch

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Source: raw story




Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon’s We Build the Wall scheme: report

Published 1 min ago on August 20, 2020


President Donald Trump was caught in a precarious position when one of his top former aides and former campaign CEO was indicted for fraud after running a fake effort to build the wall on the southern American border.

Over a year ago, the Pentagon inspector general began looking into a suspicious $400 million contract given from the Department of Homeland Security to the construction company linked to Bannon’s group. The funds came at Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Trump’s urging

“On Dec. 2, the Pentagon announced a contract worth up to $400 million to Fisher Sand and Gravel for the construction of 31 miles of new border barriers along the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona,” said the Washington Post.
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CEO Tommy Fisher launched an aggressive effort to try and score a contract, making several appearances on Fox News and paying at least $100,000 in lobbying. Fisher also personally lobbied the president, gave hefty donations to Cramer’s Senate campaign, and attacked the Army Corps of Engineers for excluding their firm. Fisher was then Cramer’s guest to Trump’s State of the Union Address in 2019. ..........................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-directed-homeland-security-to-give-400-million-to-firm-tied-to-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scheme-report/

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) needs to do some explaining.

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[progressive nobody]

1. Giving money to his friend --"Who he doesn't know"

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. So Dump directed $400 million of our money to a scam?

What was his cut?

Lock him up!

[brush]

12. That's just what I was thinking. Can we say "kickback"?

Which is why a spokesperson for SDNY said they like to keep their cards close to the chest in certain cases—meaning they used USPS investigators so as not to alert Barr to the impending arrests as they didn't want him to put a stop to the case.

I'm sure trump got to wet his beak.

[SergeStorms]

43. You can bet your bottom dollar...

Trump has been getting kickbacks from just about every deal he's pushed through to republican donors and friends. I'd wager Trump has stolen hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars thus far. Trump's best friends in New York were mobsters, crooked lawyers, and shady businessmen. Someday all this is going to come into the light, and Trump is going to prison. I hope his entire family goes right along with him.

[certainot]

21. sounds like it

[SheltieLover]

30. This!👆

Lock him up!!!

[Botany]

54. Don Fanucci aka Donald Trump, "I just gotta wet my beak a little bit."

I would say the Trump family got 5% off the top.

[Blue Owl]

3. ANOTHER reason to defund and abolish the DHS

It's just another criminal enterprise.

[llmart]

11. +1000

That was my first thought. I want that department disbanded. Hope Biden/Harris urge that be done.

[apnu]

14. according to RawStory the money came from the Pentagon.

Or at least the Pentagon announced it as part of their due diligence.

[SergeStorms]

45. But they always get budget increases...

while social services and everything else get cuts to their budgets. It's past time to make the Pentagon accountable for every freaking dime they're budgeted.

[Mike 03]

4. They just threw our money away, right in the trash and the pockets of their

pals. There has to be a Trump Crimes Commission. Their assets should be frozen before they can spend or hide it!

[SheltieLover]

31. Absolutely!

Now! All of chumputin's enablers!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Lets have an exact accounting of this half billion dollars

that Trump misused for his own gain. And the rest of our money too.
Trump is robbing this country as fast as he can.

[aquamarina]

6. Holy cow, this is getting interesting.

I wonder just how much of that $400mm slid into the Orangeman's pocket?

[SheltieLover]

32. Exactly!

Lock his fat ass up!

[madaboutharry]

7. Always the mobster.

This is classic mob style wheeling and dealing.

[Under The Radar]

8. Damnit! This is just one effed up day for Trump and it isn't even Friday.

[Walleye]

9. Pretty stinky, Spanky

[Bengus81]

10. Er....er...

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. The perfect con.

Trump knew that building a wall with Mexico's money was a perfect proposition to run with the rascists and xenophobes that vote Republican. Once in, they'd have no problem letting the taxpayer pay for it. No question in my mind that this was always the reason Trump wanted that wall built....somewhere in the Cayman Islands there is a shell corporation that's raking in all kinds of $ from the various scams that DJT has been involved with.

The day just keeps on getting better....another hit on the Organized Crime Party.

[SheltieLover]

33. Indeed!

👍

[think4yourself]

15. Grifters and gravel.

Dirtbags all.

[trueblue2007]

16. I BET TRUMP IS INVOLVED IN THIS CRIMINAL SCHEME TOO. What do you say everyone ????

[SheltieLover]

35. Absolutely!

Lock him up now!

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Someone posted a link about

SDNY does Political Corporation as their specialty. Now,Senator Cramer of North Dakota is associated with Fischer Sand and Gravel via carrying water in order to receive 400 million in order for Fischer to even buy any of the material necessary for that wall.

Will be interesting to watch what happens to Cramer.

[Scarsdale]

18. I wonder how much

"shit-fer-brains" tRump got from that $400 million? That could have put a dent in the unemployment funding, helping people with living expenses. Building a stupid wall is asinine.

[NCjack]

19. The Wall was a big bilking scheme that goes to the top. C'est ce que c'est.

[SheltieLover]

36. Yup!

Lock chumputin up!

[ResistantAmerican17]

20. We the taxpayers may never know how many billions of dollars

drumph’s organized criminal ring has stolen, but there is going to be an endless drumbeat of stories that come out, and a lot of people are going to be brought into the light. The snitches will cover their corrupt asses by turning on each other and probably won’t serve a day in prison. They will be humiliated and pilloried in public day in and day out. Fuck these shameless thieves.

[Javaman]

22. Boy oh boy does this stink of money laundering!

What a bunch of crooked inept clowns

[PatrickforO]

23. Precarious position? Trump has been in this corruption up to his eyebrows

since being elected.

[patphil]

24. The DHS needs to be restructured.

It's budget, nearly $50 billion, is way too big. And, it's scope is much too broad.
Most of the agencies that were folded into it when it was created need to be taken out and put back where they came from.
The DHS should be an advisory and coordinating agency only.
It concentrates too much power under one control...perfect for a would-be Hitler like Trump to take hold of and transform into a national police force.

It should absolutely not have policing power!

[Traildogbob]

27. Well then🤔

This new whistle blower Miles, was Chief of staff at HHS. Maybe all the graphic death threats he says he is getting from trumpets, may push him to talk louder to get protection. Otherwise, a little Russian tea may be served to him.

[They_Live]

25. "I'm going to need you

to do me a favor though..."

[JDC]

26. Trump is definitely involved in the graft.

No way he lets an opportunity to bilk the Magat suckers pass w/o his taking a cut. No way.

[amuse bouche]

28. Those pictures are fabulous

[Lonestarblue]

29. If I recall correctly, Fisher was not awarded the contract until Trump insisted.

The company had never built a wall like this, nor did they have experience with large projects. They did not meet government contracting standards, but Trump told them to award the contract anyway. And the wall they built was so shoddy that it’s already falling down.

[SheltieLover]

38. Lock him up!

Now!

[LuckyLib]

46. Yeah, and in concrete heaven that is Texas (Dallas and Houston)

there are no companies that could have handled this. North Dakota? Please.

[LuckyLib]

55. Yeah, and in concrete heaven that is Texas (Dallas and Houston)

there are no companies that could have handled this. North Dakota? Please.

[dchill]

34. There is no enough.

[LymphocyteLover]

37. WTAF?!?!?!?!? This seems hugely outrageous and illegal!

OMFG!!!

[SheltieLover]

40. Ikr!

Surreal! And we don't even know the details...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Wow, another unspeakable crime.

[volstork]

41. Crooks.

Crooks, liars, and traitors-- ALL of them.

[bluestarone]

42. Only ONE way to see this!

WE (you and i, and this GREAT country) has been RUMPS,(and ALL RETHUGS) go to check book for ANYTHING they wanted for the last 3 and half years! Way past time for them to pay for their BULLSHIT!!

[amuse bouche]

44. Those pictures are fabulous

[Soph0571]

47. They need to start impeachment proceedings again n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. Kushner was also an advocate for the Fisher contract

President Donald Trump has lobbied for the company to receive contracts on the US-Mexico Trump wall, to the Department of Homeland Security, to Todd T. Semonite of the Army Corps of Engineers, and promoted the company in an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity. Jared Kushner has also endorsed the company, as well as freshman North Dakota senator Kevin Cramer, to whose campaign the Fisher family contributed $10,000.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/heres-how-fisher-industries.html

Because it's worth remembering that Bannon, Kushner, Trump Jr (an enthusiastic promoter of We Built The Wall), Erik Prince (on the WBTW advisory board) and Sam Clovis were the people the Senate (including Republicans) made criminal referrals about. Clovis? He's a climate-change denier who Trump nominated for USDA's top science post, before his involvement with George Papadopoulos in the Russia scandal made him withdraw. I guess he had a bit of residual shame. Maybe that's why he's not mixed up in fraudulent wall money.

[Evolve Dammit]

49. The Quid Pro Quo just don't slow.

[Brainfodder]

50. I am quite annoyed at all the people acting surprised?

[warmfeet]

51. So, each day we learn more about past crimes and ongoing crimes.

Yet, we have been unable to do jack shit about stopping these assholes from continuing to commit blatant crimes.

I hope the general election works out for us. If not, well ..........

[Dream Girl]

52. Trump said something tell during the Tic Tok thing a few weeks ago.some like if Microsoft made

A deal to acquire them, he would expect a piece of the action. Not sure if this was supposed to be a “joke” but he sure did reveal what he’s all about, how he thinks. Like a mob boss.

[Stuart G]

53. If this is proven...Trump will end up in jail, if he ordered this.

If he did not order this, and it can still be proven, then someone else will end up in jail.
That is for sure..

[ToxMarz]

56. Look at the cast of characters involved in this scam, they didn't do it for a couple million $$$

this is the big score they were after (and maybe more we don't know about yet).

[TexasBushwhacker]

57. This article says $1.7 Billion

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/12/texas-border-wall-private/