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Olympian canoeist slaps back at Trump: Government worker 'cut off the peeling’
Trump Needed a Vandals Story. The Record Says Otherwise.The Lie Had a JobOne short paragraph of context: a government engineer cut loose parts of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner with a knife, and the Justice Department initially pursued former Olympic canoeist David Hearn after Trump publicly claimed vandals had slashed the pool. The case was later dropped after federal filings acknowledged the damage came from a botched installation, not vandalism.That is the whole story in miniature: a president invents a villain, prosecutors move fast, and the facts arrive late enough to matter…
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