Judge’s Ruling Will Help Trump Make the Border Wall Great Again

U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton ruled on Friday that the Biden administration must stop selling off steel components that Trump 45 purchased to build the southern border wall.

Trump rushed to celebrate.

“In a major, crucial WIN for America, and our National Security, a Federal Judge in Texas, based on papers we filed just a few days ago, has PROHIBITED the Biden Administration from selling any materials designated for the Border Wall, that has been wrecked by Biden and his cronies, and which I am going to rebuild in order to protect our Country from violent migrant crime, fentanyl smuggling, sex trafficking, terror attacks, and other heinous, Nation ending disasters,” the president re-elect announced via Truth Social on Saturday morning.

“The Judge has also ordered an investigation into the illegal selling of the materials, which will expose just how corrupt and anti-American Radical Democrats are,” Trump continued. “I am honored to be joined in this vital case by the Great States of Texas and Missouri, and applaud Judge Drew Tipton for doing the right thing for our Country. We have to protect our Borders, and Save America. MAGA!”

Offering even more good news, Trump’s incoming Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Saturday: “One of the companies actually reached out to me, willing to give us those border-wall products back at what they paid for them — pennies on the dollar — giving them back, for the same price.”

Biden reportedly will not swim upstream on this issue. With just three weeks left in his Reign of Error, it seems as if Biden will leave Tipton’s ruling unchallenged and end a nearly four-year Democrat campaign to sabotage Trump’s signature promise — to finish the southern border wall.

Since he first ran for president, Trump pledged, “On Day One, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall.” And since Biden’s Day One, he has labored to undo Trump’s life-saving handiwork.

In the latest such effort, the Daily Wire’s James Lalino reported earlier this month, huge pieces of unused border wall material wound up for auction at steep discounts.

“They are taking it from three stations: Nogales, Tucson, and Three Points,” a whistleblowing Border Patrol agent told Lalino. The officer added that DP Trucking LLC, a government contractor, hauled these materials up Interstate 19 to Pinal Airpark in Marana, Ariz.

“They just started taking all the wall that was not used, which is still totally good and usable, and they started taking it northbound,” according to the federal agent. “They’re pulling it all off the border.”

The “32.91’ X 7.91’ Steel Bollard Wall Sections w/Grout” wound up in the hands of GovPlanet, which sells surplus federal property.

“When Trump comes back, and he wants to start the border wall all over again, the whole entire funding fight is gonna happen again,” the agent warned. “That’s their play. He’s gonna have to fight for this — again.”

This sleight of hand became public and triggered a mushroom cloud of outrage — perfectly fitting this southwestern desert setting.

“The Biden administration is well aware they shouldn’t have reversed the construction of the border wall,” Congressman Eli Crane (R–Ariz.) told the Daily Wire. ”If it’s true, they’re purposefully hamstringing an incoming president.”

“Joe Biden is attempting a last-ditch effort to keep America’s borders open by selling off materials the Trump Admin will use to finish the wall,” former governor Doug Ducey (R–Ariz.) raged via X. “This decision from President Biden is reckless, will make Arizonans less safe, and should be reversed — immediately.”

“All of it pretty much could be utilized, they could put down footing, pick it back up, and use it. Instead, what are they doing? They’re auctioning off,” lamented Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Cueto. “When you have to start with the new administration, wanting to rebuild it, what are we going to have to do, you’re going to have to use more taxpayer-funded money, which is insane to me.”

During a wide-ranging, 70-minute press conference on Dec. 16, Trump explained why these wall components are more complex and costly than they appear.

“It’s a special type of steel, but very, very hard to cut. Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete, and that’s a Grade 10 concrete, which is a very strong concrete, as though you were building about a 60-story building. It’s very powerful concrete,” Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

“They’ve made tremendous technology advances in concrete, who would think that? But I know that from the construction industry. Today, what you can do with concrete is incredible,” Trump continued. “So, we have a very strong concrete, and then we have a rebar. We put rebar inside the concrete, and the rebar likewise is very hard to cut. So, it’s a very expensive process, very expensive wall, and then we put an anti-climb plate on the top.”

As for Team Biden’s efforts to auction off these valuable assets, Trump remarked, “What they’re doing is really — it’s almost a criminal act.”

Senator Ted Cruz would delete the word “almost.”

“Let me be very clear to every official at the Department of Homeland Security or anywhere else who approves selling off incredibly expensive portions of the border wall for $5 a piece,” the Texas Republican said on Fox News Channel’s Hannity program. “You are engaged in theft of government property, and you should expect the Department of Justice to investigate you and prosecute you!” Cruz added: “This is a brazen abuse of power, and it reflects the views of this White House and Democrats across the board.”

Cruz compared Biden’s steel-wall fire sale to a sheriff who loses a re-election bid and then makes his successor’s life miserable by squandering $50,000 squad cars for $100.

The probe that Judge Tipton ordered should identify the perpetrators of these shady deals. They should face the music once Attorney General-nominee Pam Bondi is in power.

If Biden gets a second ill wind and tries again to sell border wall parts, Trump should ask Elon Musk to purchase all remaining wall materials. By my rough calculations, 40 percent of the $300 million worth of wall components that were set for auction should be worth $120 million. That is barely lunch money to Earth’s Richest Man, worth some $400 billion.

If these metal posts can be bought at five cents on the dollar, this should cost a mere $6 million, rather than $120 million. For Musk, this is a rounding error. At a $6.5 million-per-mile cost of a new border wall, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, this should provide the raw steel needed for at least 18.5 miles of new wall. If labor costs are part of that $6.5 million, then these raw materials alone should stretch for more than that distance.

With or without Musk’s involvement, these dormant steel slabs soon will stand proudly in place as Trump 47 fulfills his promise to Make the Border Wall Great Again.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.

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