Trump’s Own Contractor Humiliates Him With Reflecting Pool Bombshell
Eric Lee / REUTERS Donald Trump’s handpicked contractor admitted it was to blame for problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, further undercutting the president’s baseless assertion that “vandals” were responsible.
In government documents dated August 14 and September 2, Atlantic Industrial Coatings acknowledged that design and construction issues with the pool caused the blue liner to peel, The New York Times reported .
The news comes after Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, dropped a case against an Olympic medalist accused of vandalizing the pool, citing the “flawed installation by the contractor” and the Department of Interior’s “failure to fully and accurately provide information” to Pirro’s prosecutors.
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