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Trump's latest grift is the perfect metaphor for a cheat and loser
The Reflecting Pool as a Ruling-Class Crime SceneWhat the Story Actually ShowsThe basic facts are simple enough: Trump turned a public landmark into a vanity project, handed no-bid work to politically connected firms, drove the price far beyond the original estimate, and then left taxpayers to absorb the damage while the pool turned into an algae-ridden embarrassment. That is the reporting’s factual core. Everything else is the familiar effort to launder power through language.Power Was Never the MysteryThe article’s real subject is not a landscaping mistake. It is institutional capture…
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