Trump Vows To Finish Border Wall, Says He Will Reclaim Materials Sold By Biden

President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to complete the border wall with materials that former President Joe Biden sold off “for pennies on the dollar,” as The Daily Wire first reported in December.

The president spoke with the press on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center after announcing the recipients of the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Asked by The Daily Wire about reports that parts of the border wall will be returned to the federal government, Trump promised: “We are taking that wall back.”

The president pointed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell off the wall materials. Videos obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in December showed trucks hauling away unused sections of the wall from a section of the border just south of Tucson, Arizona, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration.

“They sold the wall,” the president said. “This is expensive stuff. Hardened steel, very expensive. 9,000-pound concrete and rebar. Rebar is very expensive. The hardest rebar. It’s very hard to cut. You have different materials. It’s very hard to cut. They cut it down if they can. It’s very hard to cut.”

“Biden sold it for pennies on the dollar, $0.03 on the dollar, $0.04 on the dollar, he sold it,” Trump added.

“Well, Pam Bondi has been working very hard on suing that company and I think they’ve reached a settlement where we’re taking the wall back,” Trump added, glancing at the attorney general, who was watching the president’s remarks along with other administration officials. “But they stole the wall from us. That wall was so expensive to build. And we had it, as you know, hundreds of miles of it. They came along and they basically sold it for scrap. What a shame that is.”