The former U.S. Olympian arrested on misdemeanor charges for allegedly vandalizing the newly revamped Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool said he was “never read” his Miranda rights after his arrest and plans to fight the charges against him. David Hearn, 67, on Monday denied allegations that he damaged government property by reaching into the waters of…
National Guard members and U.S. Park Police patrolled around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday as part of a crackdown against suspected vandalism after the pool’s waters turned green from an algae bloom and blue paint added to the pool floated to the surface. The patrols come as the Department of the Interior said…
CBS News and other news organizations have investigated President Donald Trump's claim that vandals left a 350-foot gash in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have found that there is "no sign."On Monday, Trump doubled down on his assertions about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco happened, saying it "has been given a 300-foot-long gash." The president told CBS News that he would present the evidence in court."I can't help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up," Trump has told reporters. On Tuesday, however, CBS correspondent Ed O'Keefe said the network had inspected the Reflecting Pool and could not substantiate the president's accusations."We checked again and still no sign of a 350-foot gash as President Trump alleges," O'Keefe wrote on X.The correspondent went further in his report that was broadcast on CBS Mornings, noting that he "did a lap around the pool a little earlier to check on things.""There are far more National Guard troops, local police, even US marshals out here keeping an eye on things," O'Keefe said. "But the one thing we still can't find is that alleged 350-foot gash along the floor of the pool that the president says is there.""Despite that, the interior department is getting ready to drain the pool again and make repairs again," O'Keefe told anchor Errol Barnett. "The president previously claimed the pool was impenetrable with a blade.""But Monday, he said that's exactly what happened, claiming someone cut a long gash in the pool's lining and pulled at its edges."O'Keefe added that other "reporters have been down there today looking for that slit that you mentioned, and there's no evidence of it.""So many more questions," Barnett concluded. "I'm sure taxpayers will be encouraged to know they at least paid for something with a warranty."
President Donald Trump said that six people have been arrested for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued by algae and peeling paint after a renovation that he directed.
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President Trump is sticking by his claims of vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, following reports that the pool’s new base covering is peeling off. The Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar renovation project of this iconic water feature was only recently completed. The water has since turned green from an algae bloom outbreak and the pool’s…
Vice President JD Vance had no qualms about releasing all mention of Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files when he convened a Situation Room “war room” with other members of the president’s inner circle.According to New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, during an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” White House chief of staff Susie Wiles had to forcefully tell the veep that there was no way that everything was going to be released, including an “unsubstantiated” accusation that Vance insisted should be included.Appearing on MS NOW to promote their “Regime Change” Trump administration tell-all being released on Tuesday, the pair of White House reporters were asked about the use of the Situation Room and why the secretive meetings were convened there.“So this meeting comes to try to figure out how to deal with something they cannot get away with, and that Donald Trump keeps getting asked about it,” Haberman explained. “The problem for them is the President doesn't want to hear Epstein, he would say, he would snap at anybody who would bring it up, and so they have several meetings in the Situation Room.”“We capture just a few of them and the ones that we capture were almost exclusively about how to handle this in a way that deals with their boss, that protects him, that doesn't stoke further conspiracies, that doesn't hurt themselves, frankly, politically, so we describe,” she elaborated. “You know, this is a huge meeting. The first one that we describe it's the vice president, it is the White House chief of staff, it is the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, White House counsel, comms officials. I mean. The list is long and they are talking about what to do now.”“Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair, says something to the effect of, with all due respect, it's the comms strategy of this group that got us into this, and you know there needs to be an actual plan here on how to how to get out of this,” she added."JD Vance, the whole time, wanted to release everything, including unsubstantiated Information, including unsubstantiated information about Donald Trump,” she continued to explain as co-host Joe Scarborough interrupted and pointed out, “Which was abusing a woman.”“There was a second-hand allegation that was, I want to be clear, was already public,” Haberman replied. “And I want to be clear that I'm not saying he abused a woman,” Scarborough pointed out. “What I'm saying is, what shocked me was that JD Vance had this unsubstantiated charge of Donald Trump abusing a minor and told Susie Wiles in the group, in your book, told Susan Wiles, ‘Oh, we need to release it all, he'll be fine releasing it,’ and Susie was, ‘No, he won't.'”“Yeah, and that's just one of the moments of many where JD Vance seems to be strangely disconnected from Donald Trump inside this book,” Scarborough observed. - YouTube youtu.be
The growing list of issues surrounding the renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is creating an unwelcome distraction for President Trump as he seeks to complete beautification projects in Washington ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next month. Clumps of algae appeared on the floor of the pool within days of the iconic landmark…
Two more dead ducks were found near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after a separate bird carcass was found floating in the recently renovated site. The Washington Post reported Monday the two dead ducks were found in a pond at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall, located roughly 200 feet from the Reflecting Pool. City…