Trump condemns private Texas border wall built by his supporters 'to make me look bad'

Donald Trump has criticised a group of his supporters who privately financed and built a wall along the US-Mexico border in South Texas earlier this year because the wall is already deteriorating from erosion.

The privately funded wall was "only done to make me look bad," the president said on Sunday, The Associated Press reported, despite the group, “We Build the Wall,” raising $25m since 2018 to erect it to show support for Mr Trump's immigration and border security initiatives.

The group first launched its fundraising effort during the government shutdown of December 2018 when Congress would not agree to fund Mr Trump's wall proposal.

Mr Trump's former campaign CEO and chief political strategist Steve Bannon and Kansas GOP Senate candidate Kris Kobach have served in leading roles for the group that built the private wall.

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