Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick recently celebrated a “huge win” for President-elect Donald Trump regarding the border wall along the Mexican border. Amid President Joe Biden’s efforts to sell off pieces of the wall before Trump returns to the White House, Patrick informed users on X that the raw materials had been pulled from auction. The lieutenant governor previously explained that Texas was prepared to buy the border wall segments and give them to the Trump administration.
Taking to X, Patrick wrote, “A huge win for @RealDonaldTrump and Texas! The border wall that Joe Biden was attempting to auction off for pennies on the dollar in secret has been stopped.” The top-ranking Texas officials explained that the pieces of border wall had been removed from auction, rendering his buy-back efforts unnecessary.
“Last Thursday, a tip from Border Patrol exposed Biden for attempting to sell wall panels. A few days later, the administration rushed thousands of usable wall panels, not clearly seen before, to an auction site in Arizona. The purpose was clearly to keep these border wall panels from President Trump. That auction happened today, but thousands of good wall panels that we were ready to buy were pulled from the auction,” he said.
Further expounding on the matter, Patrick wrote, “Here’s the back story. When Texas looked at the auction site on Friday of last week, the usable wall panels were not listed, or it was not easy to see what they were. Texas was never told in advance about the auction of the usable wall panels. Then, the panels were quickly removed from the auction yesterday.”
Texas sent a representative to Arizona, and the auctioneers told him they pulled the wall panels from being auctioned off today at the direction of the U.S. Government. They also told us that if these thousands of panels go up for auction, Texas will be notified first. Governor Abbott and I stand ready to buy them if they do.
“Early this week, President Trump called out Biden for trying to sell off the border wall early this week. He called it a “criminal act” by Biden,” Patrick added, noting that the controversy had been brought to Trump’s attention. “President Trump was the key to ending the secret Biden plan.” He concluded the message, “It’s another Trump win, and he’s not even in office yet.”
The American Tribune recently reported on comments from Patrick related to the border wall when he outlined efforts to bid on the pieces for sale during an interview with Fox News. “We mean business in Texas, and Tom Homan means business, and President Trump means business,” Patrick said during a recent segment with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. “And I don’t know if you heard the latest today, Laura, but Joe Biden is now hauling off the border wall that’s been lying down for years and he wants to auction it off starting at $5 apiece.”
“So I’m gonna find out first thing in the morning where we are going to take the bid. I’ve got a billion dollars in my pocket to do it. I write the budget with (Texas state) Senator Joan Huffman. We have the money. We’re gonna have about $6 billion in our budget for border security. We’ll buy it,” he added. Watch Patrick’s interview below:
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