Robert Marini built that wall. But somebody reached over it.

The Times Union has twice reported on one of the political season's more bizarre stories: the saga of the noted Capital Region builder and Trump supporter who erected fencing to keep out would-be sign snatchers after thieves made off with eight — count 'em! — eight of his "Trump — Make America Great Again" lawn signs since June.

Despite new security measures — including chicken wire and flood lights — that Marini showed CapCon over the weekend, a ninth theft occurred after midnight Sunday night.

Grainy black-and-white security camera footage, screenshots of which Marini sent us, shows a thief (it appears to be a man in a dark long-sleeve shirt or sweatshirt) reaching over the fencing to pluck the sign out of the ground and take off at 12:30 a.m.

"This is what I'm dealing with," Marini wrote in an email Monday morning. "Too funny!"

And now, it has become a campaign issue.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long put out a statement Monday morning calling on Democrats Hillary Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer to denounce incidents of sign thefts, vandalism and apparent verbal abuse.

"The thefts, vandalism, and trespass on the private property of those displaying signs has been reported in Rockland County, Albany County, and Erie County, and given what we have heard, it is likely more widespread than this," Long said. "In one case, a female volunteer with our signs was assaulted by an angry motorist who pulled a violent U-turn to come back and scream at her and then ripped away some of our signs."

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