“I have now spoken to the President on three occasions about this project,” Kobach said. “And he said – the first time I told him about it – he said, ‘well, you’re telling the guys at We Build The Wall that they have my blessing.’ And he used those exact words. “
“And he’s continuous, I’ve met, I meet him or talk to him periodically on the phone, and I’ve just talked to him about it,” he added. “I want to say about a quarter of a week ago and also keep him informed of our progress. That he is enthusiastic.”
Kobach, a fierce ally of the president, served on Trump’s voter fraud commission in 2017 and was endorsed by the president during his 2018 run for governor of Kansas, a race he read in the deep state lost.
“After federal prosecutors arrested Bannon and the others, reports came out of a 2019 interview that Kobach did with The New York Times, in which he claimed that Trump supported the project but released a review of CNF’s KFile of publicity by” We Build The Wall “found that Kobach made the claim on numerous other occasions.
Trump said Thursday that he did not like the project, citing a tweet from last month that he had criticized it, saying he knew nothing about it other than what he had read. The White House asserted in a statement on Thursday that the president did not know how to involve people in the project when he knows the majority of board members.
The White House declined Friday to comment on Kobach’s claims. Kobach did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
In another video of the group in March of 2019, Kobach said he met twice with the president about the project.
“Trump showed a clear enthusiasm for it,” Kobach said. “He wants to make it known that he is behind this attempt …. the president clearly approves and he said that directly to me,” Kobach added.
Brian Kolfage, one of the men accused of claiming donors, and the group, reiterated that Kobach was in communication with Trump about the project and that the president supported the initiative.
“The feedback has been positive,” Kolfage said at a town hall before the project. “One of our board members, Kris Kobach, who was secretary of the Homeland Security department, is now on our team and he’s talking directly to the president himself. The president supports what we do. He approves of what we are. to do. “
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