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Brutal CNN supercut lays bare Trump team's 'brazen lies' — that just blew up in court
Trump Broke the Pool, Then Broke the StoryPower First, Facts LaterThis is not a story about a vandalized Reflecting Pool. It is a story about a president who wanted a patriotic spectacle, used federal power to rush it through, and then tried to convert the predictable failure of his own operation into a criminal conspiracy.The reporting makes the sequence plain: Trump declared the pool “decaying,” pushed a no-bid renovation, demanded a July 4 deadline, and crowed about the liner as “American flag blue.” When the work went wrong, the administration did what it always does when reality…
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