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Coulter - Trump Round 2: Ann challenges Trump to show where any new wall was built
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter issued a put-up-or-shut-up demand Tuesday to President Donald Trump, challenging him to identify exactly where his administration has erected new border barriers between the U.S. and Mexico.
Trump claimed Saturday on Twitter that the '[m]ajor sections of Wall are being built.' He tweeted a day earlier that his long-promised border wall 'is being built and is well under construction.'
Coulter told DailyMail.com in an email that she wants details.
'The President’s tweet says he’s already building the Wall. Could he give me the precise latitude and longitude of its location?' she asked. 'Also, how many miles long is it?'
'I want to throw a party there and need the exact coordinates,' she wrote.
The president first began to claim limited success with his ambitious project in the fall of 2017, tweeting that construction consisted of 'new renovation of old and existing fences and walls.'
Fifteen months later he claimed that his administration had 'already built large new sections & fully renovated others.'
Trump tweeted a photo in January that he said showed a section of 'NEW WALL,' but didn't say where it was. The image included a date-stamp indicating that it was taken in October.
Since then all of his public statements have boasted of new wall construction – not renovation of older structures. 'The Wall is being built and will be a great achievement,' he tweeted February 12.
A week later his Twitter feed published a time-lapse video appearing to show a section of steel-slatted bollard wallbeing erected 'in New Mexico.' The tweet said it was '[c]ompleted on January 30, 2019 – 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction!'
The footage bore the logo of the Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency that serves as general contractor for large federal public-works projects.
An Army Corps spokesman told a military blog the following day that the video was shot on Sep. 18, 2018. It consisted of 'a replacement project,' pre-approved repair work, and not a new wall.
The New York Times reported in January that 'no new miles of barriers had been built' during the Trump administration, although [s]ome existing barriers have been replaced.'
DailyMail.com asked the White House on Tuesday to identify the location of any 'place where there's a barrier now and there was none on Inauguration Day.'
One White House spokesperson referred the question to another, who did not respond. A Homeland Security Department spokesperson said information might be available 'tomorrow at the earliest.'
Coulter has stoked a new fire under Trump in the past week, claiming that the president has no intention of following through on his signature campaign promise to wall off Mexico from the United States.
She told a crowd of 600 Floridians on Monday that he is 'a shallow, narcissistic, lying conman.'
Trump had blasted her on Twitter two days earlier as a 'Wacky Nut Job,' ending any hope that Coulter might come back into the MAGA fold.
'Trump has no intention of fulfilling his campaign promises. This is not an anomaly. He's not trying. It's not an accident,' she said Monday night.
Coulter rattled off a list of sarcastic 2020 Trump campaign slogans, earning the biggest laughs for: 'The Wall! Oh, Never Mind.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uild-wall.html
Trump claimed Saturday on Twitter that the '[m]ajor sections of Wall are being built.' He tweeted a day earlier that his long-promised border wall 'is being built and is well under construction.'
Coulter told DailyMail.com in an email that she wants details.
'The President’s tweet says he’s already building the Wall. Could he give me the precise latitude and longitude of its location?' she asked. 'Also, how many miles long is it?'
'I want to throw a party there and need the exact coordinates,' she wrote.
The president first began to claim limited success with his ambitious project in the fall of 2017, tweeting that construction consisted of 'new renovation of old and existing fences and walls.'
Fifteen months later he claimed that his administration had 'already built large new sections & fully renovated others.'
Trump tweeted a photo in January that he said showed a section of 'NEW WALL,' but didn't say where it was. The image included a date-stamp indicating that it was taken in October.
Since then all of his public statements have boasted of new wall construction – not renovation of older structures. 'The Wall is being built and will be a great achievement,' he tweeted February 12.
A week later his Twitter feed published a time-lapse video appearing to show a section of steel-slatted bollard wallbeing erected 'in New Mexico.' The tweet said it was '[c]ompleted on January 30, 2019 – 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction!'
The footage bore the logo of the Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency that serves as general contractor for large federal public-works projects.
An Army Corps spokesman told a military blog the following day that the video was shot on Sep. 18, 2018. It consisted of 'a replacement project,' pre-approved repair work, and not a new wall.
The New York Times reported in January that 'no new miles of barriers had been built' during the Trump administration, although [s]ome existing barriers have been replaced.'
DailyMail.com asked the White House on Tuesday to identify the location of any 'place where there's a barrier now and there was none on Inauguration Day.'
One White House spokesperson referred the question to another, who did not respond. A Homeland Security Department spokesperson said information might be available 'tomorrow at the earliest.'
Coulter has stoked a new fire under Trump in the past week, claiming that the president has no intention of following through on his signature campaign promise to wall off Mexico from the United States.
She told a crowd of 600 Floridians on Monday that he is 'a shallow, narcissistic, lying conman.'
Trump had blasted her on Twitter two days earlier as a 'Wacky Nut Job,' ending any hope that Coulter might come back into the MAGA fold.
'Trump has no intention of fulfilling his campaign promises. This is not an anomaly. He's not trying. It's not an accident,' she said Monday night.
Coulter rattled off a list of sarcastic 2020 Trump campaign slogans, earning the biggest laughs for: 'The Wall! Oh, Never Mind.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uild-wall.html
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