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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Trump picked his ‘pool guy’ to fix the Reflecting Pool: The bungled repairs only got worse from there

A damning report has exposed how President Donald Trump’s rush to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was doomed from the start, with the complicated $14 million renovation project overseen by the manager of one of the president’s golf clubs.

In the president’s relentless pursuit to overhaul the Washington, D.C. landmark, among others, the Trump administration was willing to “skirt laws, expend millions of dollars, ignore facts and punish truth tellers” to get the job done, according to The New York Times, which reports excruciating new details about the botched renovation project.

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