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President Donald Trump has turned his focus from the Iran war to the ongoing setbacks in his renovation of the Reflecting Pool, but it's clear the project won't be ready in time for the July 4 celebration.The $14 million renovation has been bedeviled by issues from the start, and CNN's Kevin Liptak provided an update to "The Situation Room" on the continued issue that Trump has tried to blame on vandals."It is becoming clear that the president is now consumed with what can only be described as a botched renovation of this Reflecting Pool," Liptak said. "We have seen you know over the last several days the algae growing, the liner pulling up, the president sort of continuing these accusations that this was the work of vandals, although he has not backed up any of that with evidence.""He has just posted on Truth Social that six people now have been arrested and seven people have been cited for the damage that he has said has been done to this facility," Liptak added, "describing a 350-foot gash, which we should note, is 100 feet longer than he said it was a couple of days ago that he said was conducted by very sharp knife or razors, and that it was numerous slashes."Liptak said the president has provided other conflicting statements about the project."Now in early May, President Trump was at an event saying that there was not possible to cut this lining with a knife because it was so strong and so powerful, now suggesting that vandals had gone in and slashed that very bright blue liner that you have seen being pulled up from the bottom," Liptak said. "He also says that a small area at the bottom of the pool was cut and lifted off the surface, leaving uneven edges, and then the president went on to write, 'In any event, even prior to fixing those areas, the Reflecting Pool is as beautiful as it can be.'"Then he says we will drain some of the water either immediately, before or after Fourth of July to do the permanent repair," the reporter added. "So essentially confirming here that the Reflecting Pool will not be in tip-top shape by Fourth of July, which was his own sort of self-imposed deadline to get this up and in working shape." - YouTube youtu.be
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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