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Trump's Reflecting Pool fiasco triggers massive White House feud
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Is a Loyalty Test, Not a Civic ProjectThe Pool Was Never the PointA renovation at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to end with a cleaner landmark. Instead, it became another Trump-built loyalty trap: a $16 million project rushed for the nation’s 250th birthday, a botched sealant job, an arrest, an indictment, and then a prosecutor forced to admit the vandalism theory did not hold up. That is the whole story in miniature: power manufactures a claim, punishes first, and revises the facts only when the record becomes embarrassing.Trump Needed a Culprit…
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