{"id":2382444,"date":"2024-12-20T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-seeks-to-immediately-halt-biden-admins-possibly-criminal-border-wall-fire-sale-with-court-filing\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:43:46","slug":"trump-seeks-to-immediately-halt-biden-admins-possibly-criminal-border-wall-fire-sale-with-court-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-seeks-to-immediately-halt-biden-admins-possibly-criminal-border-wall-fire-sale-with-court-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Seeks to &#8216;Immediately&#8217; Halt Biden Admin&#8217;s &#8216;Possibly Criminal&#8217; Border Wall Fire Sale with Court Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-seeks-to-immediately-halt-biden-admins-possibly-criminal-border-wall-fire-sale-with-court-filing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2382444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President-elect Donald Trump \u200bhas filed a legal brief supporting a lawsuit from Texas and Missouri that seeks to \u2062halt the Biden administration&#8217;s sale of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-build-it-gop-sen-joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-transfer-border-wall-materials-to-states\/\" title=\"\u2018Let\u2019s Build It!\u2019: GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Introduces Bill To Transfer Border Wall Materials To States\">border wall materials<\/a>. his attorneys argue that these actions might potentially\u2063 be criminal and violate a previous\u200c court injunction that restricted the use of funds appropriated for border wall construction. \u200dThe brief emphasizes that\u200b dismantling\u200c and selling the wall materials\u2062 contradicts the intended purpose of the allocated \u200bfunds, which \u200dwere dedicated\u200d to\u2064 building \u200cbarrier systems at high-priority locations. Trump&#8217;s legal team contends that the Biden administration&#8217;s actions are\u200b obstructive and potentially defraud taxpayers by selling materials at a important loss. They are requesting the court to stop these \u200bsales pending an \u200dexamination of the government&#8217;s conduct. Additionally, texas officials have expressed a willingness to\u200c bid on the wall materials to retain \u2062them in the\u2063 state for Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief in federal court Thursday in support of a lawsuit brought by Texas and Missouri to &ldquo;immediately&rdquo; stop the Biden administration from selling off border wall materials.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">attorneys listed multiple reasons<\/a> in their <a href=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/12\/trump-amicus-border.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22-page court filing<\/a> why the conduct may be possibly criminal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-files-amicus-brief-immediately-stop-biden-sale-border-wall-says-conduct-possibly-criminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported, &ldquo;Texas and Missouri filed a motion earlier this week in a district court in the southern district of Texas to hold a status conference to determine if the government is in breach of the court&rsquo;s permanent injunction from earlier this year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That injunction barred the Biden administration from using funds obligated for wall construction for anything other than that purpose,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/islamist-kadyrov-ready-to-unleash-thousands-of-chechen-fighters-on-ukraine-for-putin\/\" title=\"Islamist Kadyrov Ready to Unleash Thousands of Chechen Fighters on Ukraine for Putin\">news outlet added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fire-sale-biden-auctions-off-critical-infrastructure-trump-needs-sticks-americans-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auctioning off border wall<\/a> parts since 2023, following President Joe Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> issued on his first day in office in January 2021 directing all construction on a southern border wall to cease and a review of how funds appropriated to building it may be spent.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-department-spends-130000-a-day-on-unused-border-wall-materials-report\/\" title=\"Defense Department Spends 0,000 A Day On Unused Border Wall Materials: Report\">unused border wall materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows trucks hauling wall materials off the border to a government auction site, where a massive amount of wall is waiting to be sold. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ogaQMBHw7R\">pic.twitter.com\/ogaQMBHw7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1867257767641174408?\">December 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump made a four-pronged argument in <a href=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/12\/trump-amicus-border.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his brief<\/a> in support of halting any further sales of border wall materials.<\/p>\n<p>First, his legal team argued that it violates the Appropriations Act, noting that legislation passed in 2019 appropriated over $1.3 billion &ldquo;for the construction of [a] barrier system along the southwest border&rdquo; at the &ldquo;highest priority locations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dismantling and selling off the materials for building those &lsquo;barrier systems&rsquo; with &lsquo;operationally effective designs&rsquo; is the opposite of &lsquo;construct[ing]&rsquo; barrier systems in &lsquo;the highest priority locations,&#8217;&rdquo; the brief said.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Trump&rsquo;s lawyers pointed to the federal court&rsquo;s permanent injunction issued in May that stopped the Biden administration&rsquo;s plan to dispose of a total of $3 billion in funds appropriated to border wall construction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Third, to the extent officials in the outgoing Administration are engaging in unlawful behavior to obstruct or thwart the pro-wall policy of President Trump&rsquo;s incoming Administration, they encroach on the Executive Power that will soon be lawfully vested in President Trump under Article II,&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s brief said.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the president-elect argued that selling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-sides-arizona-ranchers-biden-harris-admin-rules-border-wall-reversal-broke-federal-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border wall<\/a> materials off by &ldquo;five cents on the dollar&rdquo; is defrauding taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>His brief said that if officials in the Biden administration are &ldquo;deliberately selling off border-wall materials at a major financial loss to the Government to obstruct the pro-wall policy of Congress and President Trump, such conduct likely constitutes a criminal act, such as a conspiracy to defraud the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Here the reported conduct &ldquo;raises the concern that government officials may be, in fact, selling off border-wall materials at rock-bottom prices &mdash; and thus imposing significant, artificial financial losses on the Government &mdash; for the purpose of obstructing both Congress&rsquo;s and the incoming President&rsquo;s pro-border-barrier policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If so, such conduct would appear to both &lsquo;cheat the government out of property or money&rsquo; and &lsquo;interfere with or obstruct &hellip; lawful government functions by deceit, craft or trickery&rsquo;,&rdquo; the brief said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s lawyers concluded, &ldquo;The Court should issue an order directing the [Biden administration] to immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials to private parties pending the Court&rsquo;s review of Defendants&rsquo; conduct, and the Court should swiftly conduct a searching examination of the Government&rsquo;s conduct, by formal discovery if necessary, to examine the Government&rsquo;s compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the Court&rsquo;s injunction.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, if the sales go forward, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/got-billion-dollars-pocket-tx-official-snaps-auctioned-border-wall-materials-give-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News host Laura Ingraham Thursday, &ldquo;I will bid on all of that wall, and we will buy it in Texas, and we will give it to Donald Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a billion dollars in my pocket to do it,&rdquo; Patrick stated.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham followed his comments, remarking, &ldquo;If you buy it, I have a place to store it &mdash;&nbsp; on state land! 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In their 22-page filing, Trump&#8217;s lawyers outlined several reasons why this action could be deemed criminal. According to Fox News, Texas and Missouri had previously requested a status conference in a southern Texas district court to assess whether the government violated an earlier permanent injunction that prohibited using funds designated for wall construction for other purposes. The Biden administration has been auctioning off border wall components since 2023, following an executive order from President Joe Biden that halted all construction on the southern border wall and mandated a review of how allocated funds could be utilized. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s legal team presented four main arguments against the sales of these materials: First, they claimed it violates the Appropriations Act, which allocated over $1.3 billion for constructing barrier systems at priority locations along the southwest border; selling off these materials contradicts this purpose. Second, they referenced a permanent injunction issued by a federal court in May that blocked plans to dispose of $3 billion intended for border wall construction. Third, they argued that actions taken by officials in the outgoing administration might unlawfully obstruct President Trump&#8217;s incoming policies regarding border security under Article II of the Constitution. Lastly, Trump contended that selling these materials at significantly reduced prices amounts to defrauding taxpayers and potentially constitutes criminal behavior aimed at undermining Congress\u2019s pro-border policy.<\/p>\n<p>The brief expressed concerns about government officials possibly selling these materials at drastically low prices to create artificial financial losses while obstructing both Congress\u2019s and Trump\u2019s policies on border barriers. Trump&#8217;s attorneys urged the court to issue an order halting any ongoing sales until further examination of governmental conduct can occur.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, if sales proceed as planned, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced his intention to bid on all available wall materials with state funds earmarked for such purchases while also offering storage solutions through state land resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2382445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Border-wall-pieces.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3620,37333,3634],"class_list":["post-2382444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden","tag-border-wall","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Border-wall-pieces.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382448,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382444\/revisions\/2382448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}