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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Trump is still claiming vandals destroyed the Reflecting Pool - ignoring the facts laid out by his own team

President Donald Trump is standing by his claim that vandals destroyed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — even after federal prosecutors he appointed told a court a botched installation ruined the pool’s lining.

While campaigning Saturday for Republican candidates in Perry, Georgia, Trump told supporters his administration cleaned all the graffiti off fountains and statues in Washington, D.C., repeating claims of vandalism in the nation’s capital that have been disproven by Trump-appointed federal prosecutors.

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