When the prez is a liar: Trump claims about pool vandals are more ridiculous by the day [View all]
The New Republic
Arrests Grow Over Trump’s Reflecting Pool Renovation Disaster
The Trump administration somehow thinks arresting people will make this whole story go away.
What began as a restoration project for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has resulted in multiple arrests.
At least five people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the pool as of Saturday night, a Trump administration official told CBS News. Five citations were also issued, bringing the grand total of post-renovation citations issued at the site to 14.
In a post on Truth Social the same day, President Donald Trump said that the monument would likely have to be drained another time in order to address the damage, which he said included the use of a “knife or blade” to put a “250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade.” He also claimed that individuals that participated in the destruction poured “corrosive and destructive chemicals” into the pool. He said that all those caught participating deserved “years in jail.”
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