President-elect Donald Trump filed a court brief Thursday night over the Biden administration's “potentially criminal” sale of border wall materials.
Trump's Court summary supports motion Texas and Missouri filed Tuesday requests for a status conference to determine whether the Biden administration violated the court's permanent injunction. The injunction prohibited taxpayer funds earmarked for border wall construction from being used for any other purpose.
“At a minimum, the reported conduct raises alarming concerns of potentially criminal activity.”
After Biden halted President Trump's border wall construction in January 2021, his administration quietly began selling materials in 2023.
Defense officials previously told Fox News that the unused materials were first provided to “authorized recipients, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the states of Texas and California.”
“The remaining 40% was sold to GovPlanet under a competitive sales agreement process starting in June 2024,” officials said. “The material currently being sold through GovPlanet online auctions no longer belongs to the U.S. Government, and the Department of Defense has no legal authority to recall it or stop further resale of material it no longer owns. ”
On Thursday, President Trump filed a court brief calling on the Biden administration to halt the auction “immediately.”
“The Court should order the Defendants to immediately cease the continued sale of border barrier items to civilians pending the Court's review of the Defendants' conduct; In such cases, the government's actions should be investigated expeditiously through formal discovery, which is necessary to investigate the government's compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the court's injunctions.'' It is written in the submitted documents.
President Trump said that if the government is “intentionally selling border wall materials at great economic cost to the government in order to thwart Congress and President Trump's pro-wall agenda,” The act is highly likely to amount to criminal activity such as conspiracy to commit fraud.” US. ”
“At a minimum, the reported conduct raises alarming concerns of potentially criminal activity,” it reads.
President Trump has said he intends to resume construction on the southern border when he returns to office.
He said on Monday: [the Biden administration] I know to use it, but if it's not there I'll have to rebuild it. And the cost is double what it was a few years ago, and we're talking about so many walls, it's hundreds of millions of dollars. ”
Texas officials have pledged to help Trump secure the border in any way they can.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) has promised to buy auctioned border wall materials and return them to President Trump.
“If we can get a decent panel somewhere, we're going to buy it and give it to President Trump when he gets there,” he told Fox News on Monday.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham joined the motion in Texas and Missouri this week, pledging to provide Patrick with land to store border wall materials until Trump returns.
“If you buy it, we have a place to store it on state land! [Texas General Land Office] I'm standing by to help! ” Buckingham said.
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