President Donald Trump is not building a wall on the southern border as he has repeatedly claimed, and Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway can prove it.
On Saturday, Trump launched an attack on conservative “wacky nut job” Ann Coulter and insisted that “major sections of the wall are being built.”
Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter, who still hasn’t figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am winning on the Border. Major sections of Wall are being built…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2019
While Trump did not lie about Coulter being a “nut job,” he certainly lied about his border wall, which he declared a false national emergency in a desperate effort to steal money to fund its construction in violation of Congress’ power of the purse enshrined in the Constitution.
In response to Trump’s tweet, George Conway, an attorney, called out Trump’s lies:
Exactly. It’s a brazen and ridiculous lie, repeated over and over and over and over again, to cover the fact that he was asleep at the switch for two years. #SummaCumLiar https://t.co/TR4ggOtKGV
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 10, 2019
This is a reference to the fact that Trump had a Republican majority in the House and Senate for two years and did not pursue wall funding during that time even though he keeps claiming that there’s a border crisis. If that were true, Trump had every opportunity to get his wall funding during those two years. Only when Democrats took control of the House in 2018 did Trump start claiming that the border is a national emergency.
Conway then took on Trump’s lie in December about signing a contract to get 115 miles of wall built.
Along the same lines, this tweet also contained an incredibly brazen lie—a rather Wacky and Nut-Job-like one, to borrow a phrase. … #SummaCumLiar pic.twitter.com/xGJvV9DhMf
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 10, 2019
And he proved it by pointing out that a Justice Department lawyer admitted in open court that no such contract exists.
Just the other day, a federal judge in Boston forced a Justice Department lawyer to admit that there was no such contract: “No, your Honor, so far as I know there is no contract of 115 miles as referenced in the [President’s tweet].” #SummaCumLiar pic.twitter.com/DKcV4ufzC3
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 10, 2019
More on this thread:https://t.co/s7mL6T4ia9
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 10, 2019
And from back in December: #SummaCumLiarhttps://t.co/8ptc4N6bAy
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 10, 2019
Clearly, Trump is lying about the wall, and one wonders if he is actually going to use the billions of dollars he is trying to re-appropriate to actually build it or is he stealing it for himself and his family? This is why Congress has the sole power to appropriate funds. Congress did not vote to fund Trump’s wall. Instead, Congress gave him $1.35 billion to build 55 additional miles of fencing. Trump is a grifter and a conman, and by declaring a national emergency, he is conning Congress and the public to steal billions of dollars that don’t belong to him while claiming that he is using it to build a wall that isn’t being built.
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