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Trump spouts new theory that vandals destroyed Reflecting Pool 'in the dark of night'
When Power Fails, It Invents SaboteursThe Real Actor HereThe source event is simple: a $14 million Reflecting Pool restoration collapsed into algae, peeling paint, and a public blame game. Trump responded by claiming vandals cut a 350-foot “gash,” threatened 10 years in prison for would-be vandals, and said arrests and citations had already followed. That is the setup. The political story is everything around it.Power Owns the OutcomeThe person with actual institutional power is not some anonymous night vandal. It is the president who backed, claimed, and publicly defended the renovation…
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