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For some reason, the Trump administration decided they wanted to pay over $145 million for it.
Why is that?
Roxbury, New Jersey.
The warehouse they bought there was assessed at $62 million.
The Trump administration came in and offered them $129 million.
More than double what you'd expect to pay for it.
One of the warehouses they bought in Georgia was valued just last year at $26 million.
The Trump administration came in and bought it for $129 million.
Assessed at $26 million, they came in and paid $129 million?
What's going on there?
What's going on there?
Well, I will just point out two other things that are going on that might shed a little bit of light on this, ultimately.
Number one, The Washington Post obtained an internal memo that apparently circulated last week, the day after Mark Wayne Mullen was sworn in as the new head of Homeland Security.
That memo reportedly said that the process of turning these warehouses into Trump prison camps is going to be slowed down.
that the proposals for these facilities are going to be revised, that they're going to start incorporating feedback from stakeholders, whatever that means, before they move ahead with these Trump prison camps.
Hmm.
Why is that?
Why are they slowing down?
What's up with that?
Well, turns out simultaneously, we have learned that there's a new inspector general investigation into a