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So now what? Just let the ballroom sit as it is and let it rot?

Congress has to approve a new building. If the judge's analysis is correct, Trump tore down the prior East Wing without having the authority to construct a new building. That's a bad outcome - but a President who doesn't comply with the law can cause terrible things to happen. That doesn't give him the ability to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, whether from the general fund or from prior donations, to do whatever he wants on federal land without the legal authority to do that.

It’s obvious some Trump hater put this judge up to no good.

Why? Do you think there's some statute out there that does give the President the authority to construct buildings on federal land using outside funds at his sole discretion? Perhaps you could point to it.

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