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and I obtained a photo showing DHS, while testing Trump's prototype wall designs, cut through steel bollard with a saw available at Home Depot. Here's our story: nbcnews.to/36uZqld Today

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reports it's actually happening.

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Nick Miroff

@NickMiroff

Nov 2, 2019

SCOOP smugglers have been sawing through brand-new sections of Trump’s border wall using cordless power tools, cutting through the bollards to create gaps wide enough for people and drug loads to pass through washingtonpost.com/national/smugg

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Trump responded to our story then, saying "that’s a wall designed by previous administrations” and "its very, very hard — the wall that we are doing is very, very hard to penetrate.” Not an accurate statement, as

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Laurence (Larry) Boorstein

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Nov 2, 2019

WaPo:"The engineers estimated it would take someone 15 to 20 minutes to cut through a bollard or less if a team worked in pairs with two saws.The crews might need to go through multiple blades to complete a cut,the engineers said,but they can be quickly changed to resume sawing."

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Nov 2, 2019

Kevin McCarthy doesn't know "though" is in the transcript. Republicans are so eager to be human shields for Trump's abuse of power, they are not up to speed on the contents of the very transcript released by the WH itself. via 60 Minutes

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Effy Gee

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Nov 2, 2019

If only we had given them a few billion more. “The bollards are not the most evolved design; they are the most evolved that we could pay for,” Vitiello said. “We never said they would be an end-all, be-all.”