"What I am is a great builder. I build great things and become successful, and everybody talks about them." - Donald Trump
In 1985, tRUMP built his tRUMP Tower in New York on the backs of cheap labour and deals with the mafia. It was his entrance into real estate, his home, and where he rode the escalator to announce his presidency. It was also the last building he built that he can call his own.
Since then, tRUMP has been a brand name, bought and sold for millions, often with tRUMP getting huge kickbacks for advertizing and lying about the properties. (See Ivanka and Baku, Azerbaijan)
The wall hasn’t been built so much as repaired and only 16 miles is new, where a wall never before existed...
Everybody talks about his buildings?
This site has been around for some time and yet there is not one story on Guantanamo, and how he built the tRUMP expansion.
January 2017, Obama wanted to close guantanamo, diminished the numbers,and ordered it closed so of course tRUMP wants if open forever!
January 2018, tRUMP signed an executive order to keep Guantanamo open indefinitely. It was done the day before his State of the Union address. A showboat to add to his fear mongering…
Trump vowed in his speech to send future captives to the prison, a decade after the last detainee arrived there. Almost 800 men have been through Guantánamo. While the Bush administration initially insisted it sent only the most violent terrorists to the prison — the “worst of the worst,” according to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — this claim quickly proved false.
March 28, 2018, 200 million was planned for military prison expansion and barracks
The Trump administration had more than $200 million in new construction teed up for Guantanamo this year and next, combining new funding in the $1.3 trillion spending bill and existing projects.
May 13, 2019, Guantanamo is a place of isolation, torture, deprivation, negllect and cruelty. A place where 800+ men have been denied full protection under the Geneva Conventions. It is a place that we likely will never know the half of. It is a place that TRUMP and Homeland security wanted to send migrants families and their children…
I've Been to Guantanamo. It's No Place for Kids. |
May 13, 2019 - Now, the Trump administration appears to be increasing the scope…
News broke last week that the Defense Department awarded a $23 million dollar contract to construct a “Contingency Mass Migration Complex” at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station with capacity to detain 13,000 people and built to last “a minimum of 50 years.” In April, we also learned that the Department of Homeland Security considered sending migrant children to an old “dormitory facility” at Guantanamo.
Despite Supreme Court decisions making clear that Guantanamo is in fact not a legal black hole, more than a decade later politicians like Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) celebrate it as a place beyond the law. “As far as I’m concerned, every last one of [the detainees] can rot in Hell, but as long as they don’t do that they can rot in Guantanamo Bay,” Cotton told the Senate in a 2015 hearing.
That is the very same Tom Cotton who is on tRUMP’s short list to fill a SCOTUS seat.
So was Tom Cotton the one who planted the idea in tRUMP’s head to send migrants there as well? Or was it Mark Meadows? Stephen Miller? There are so many racists and bigots that have his ear, who knows?
March 14 2020, Inside the Most Secret Place at Guantánamo Bay - This post talks about the conditions at present. Although they have been eased somewhat, the description are what was observed, which means what really goes on is still classified. This is also about Camp 7, the area that no one is allowed to talk about, that soldiers were not even told of its exact location unless they worked there… the area that housed the “high value” terrorists and where they were tortured.
Last year, some 1,800 soldiers on nine-month tours, mostly National Guard and Reserve forces, were assigned to the detention operation. Guantánamo currently holds 40 prisoners, who are typically spread across three or four different sites, including Camp 7. Now the Southern Command has begun thinning the force, starting with a 12 to 14 percent reduction, according to military officials, in a move that should reduce the more than $13 million a year per-prisoner cost.
tRUMP was awfully excited about Guantanamo and wants to “load it up with some bad dudes,” as he said in that video, as well as promising to have the detention costs be pennies in comparison to the costs of his predecessors Guantanamo. tRUMP has done neither… but having promised that, has not said how he feels since about the Pentagon plan for a $500 million in Guantánamo construction
including a Navy request to build a $250 million, five-bed hospital here that has been singled out for study by a Senate committee. A new $8.4 million clinic for the captives is under construction, as is a new $12.4 million dining room for prison staff.
This was the original plan — to house migrants that got shut down by Mattis and other level headed people, although the COST was the only deterrent for most. According to some WH sources, tRUMP called the migrants enemy combatants when he suggested they be detained in Gitmo…
The migrants, according to design plans released with the $25 million to $100 million project solicitation, are to be housed in five pop-up tent cities and a 900-person medical unit.
Sept 02, 2020, A federal appeals court panel has ruled that prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are not entitled to due process, and are not protected by the Constitution. The only rights they have been granted are to continue to appeal their detention. The decision upholds the indefinite detention of Abdulsalam al-Hela, who was transferred to Guantanamo in 2004, and has been detained without charge or trial since.
And here is Art from Abu Zubayda, prisoner of the so-called 'war on terror', still held without charge or trial indefinitely in Guantanamo Bay under American "justice", documenting the torture he faced personally.
So, was the construction completed? Was there an expansion to house more prisoners? Was 500 million spent? Why are 1,800 soldier still housed and working within the detention area for a scant 40 prisoners? (These are not soldiers included in the Navy base) There are many questions and tRUMP loves that no one really knows what happens there.
The arial pictures on the right are actual pictures with real dates of construction. Q has been claiming that there has been an expansion using pictures from 2008. Even though debunked, you will still them being used to hype up the Q-quislings.
In saying that they would never forget 9/11, America has allowed this one reminder to survive and thrive. Perhaps when he is gone, they will put tRUMP’s name on it. That would be very , very apropos.
Serendipity… Is “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” As I was researching this, I saw a post from Just Security.
I will leave you with their four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Part I: Close Guantanamo and End Indefinite Detention
Part II: Uphold the Prohibition on Torture
Part III: End Unlawful, Secret, and Unaccountable Use of Lethal Force
Part IV: End “Endless Wars”