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The latest dirt on Trump involves a multi-billion dollar steel border wall being built in Arizona by a company with Trump PAC ties.
Multi-billion dollar Trump wall being built using contractors carefully picked for their loyalty to Trump & GOP, and their willingness to make very substantial contributions to Trump 2020 & GOP PACs.
It's called pay-to-play & before now it was a crime.
https://t.co/1qweTSGwWk— KrisS 🔥 Your Vote, Your Voice 🔥 (@MplsMe) February 17, 2020
The company, Atlas Tube, is run by Barry Zekelman, who donated $1.75 million to a pro-Trump PAC in 2018 to urge Trump to place tariffs and quotas on steel.
The New York Times says that there is enough evidence to suspect that he violated the law. Brendan Fischer, a lawyer at the Campaign Legal Center, put it simply:
“Foreign nations have no right to interfere in U.S. elections and certainly do not have the right to buy the policies that benefit them.”
The other company, Fisher Sand and Gravel, is under review by the Department of Defense, who says there are “concerns about the possibility of inappropriate influence on USACE’s contracting decision,” according to ABC News.
The Washington Post says Trump has continuously pressured the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award border wall contracts to firms that are pro-Trump.
Is this another case of Trump conning America? According to Twitter, it is:
Arizona Daily Star: “A company that heavily lobbied…Trump is part of the lucrative business of constructing the…wall along the border…
Atlas Tube is…run by Barry Zekelman, a Canadian billionaire who led…effort to urge…Trump…to place tariffs…on imported steel.”
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) February 16, 2020
And lobbied for steel tariffs. These guys steal from both pockets.
— Sean Murphy (@SPowersMurphy) February 16, 2020
Of course. The Trump “wall” is one big crony boondoggle…run by Jared Kushner, who is selling access.
— Arizona (@EuphorbiaZ) February 16, 2020
