“Fake
promises, daily hoax, opposite results”
Two related
stories vis-à-vis Trump and his “wall” endeavor:
First story:
Barcelona,
Spain — In what
might be seen as a Memorial Day gift to President Trump, residents of a
mountain range outside of El Paso today woke up to a new vista — a mile-long
wall of metal slats constructed along the border with Mexico that just shot up
over the weekend.
The secret project, which started on Friday evening and was
completed by Monday morning, was the work of “We Build the Wall,” a new group
whose director is the former White House
strategist Steve Bannon.
The CEO is
Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who
had raised $20 million to build the wall through his “GoFundMe” project, but it
appeared to be floundering until Bannon took the helm.
Bannon, who
for much of the weekend was in Kazakhstan for a geopolitical seminar, says the
project, overseen by construction mogul Tommy
Fisher of North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, involved hundreds of
workers and cost $6 million.
He says his
group asked local authorities what is the most dangerous part of the border
with Mexico, and they were pointed to this precarious mountain strip, “where
the cartels and asylum seekers are coming in” through a gap between two 21-mile
strips of completed wall.
The group
hastily “purchased the rights” to the land and went at it Friday evening. “We
had to catch them by surprise,” says Bannon, who predicts residents are “gonna
freak out” when they see what was erected over the past two days.
The second story:
Related to that Bannon story above and offers more about Fisher Industries:
Fisher Industries is a firm based in Tempe, AZ was
contracted to build concrete border wall prototypes.
This company has a legal history
marked by a constellation of environmental and workplace violations: (1) failure to control dust
pollution resulting in health concerns for workers, (2) retaliation against the
sexual harassment claims of female employees, and (3) their presidents’ ongoing
habit of writing off personal expenses as business expenses (for which one executive was sent to prison
for 37 months by the IRS; another got off scot free).
Their
eponymous former owner David Fisher was locked
away for five years in a 2005 child pornography case.
My 2 cents: “Art of the Con” with a new adjective to describe Trump's latest stunt: “Art of the Corrupt Con.”
Another black mark against Trump – as if many of us didn’t
already know his “Art of the Con” moves. More to come I am 100% certain.
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