Trump's Reflecting Pool Fiasco
Pirro dropped the case after her office said the damage came from a botched installation, not vandalism, as Fox News cut coverage to about seven minutes.
- On Friday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked a court to drop vandalism charges against Olympian David Hearn, citing a "botched installation" rather than criminal conduct for the pool's damage.
- President Donald Trump directed the $14 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, tasking David Schutzenhofer, his Bedminster golf club manager, with sourcing contractors despite Schutzenhofer's lack of formal engineering or architecture training.
- The Interior Department granted Atlantic Industrial Coatings a 20 percent profit margin to bypass scrutiny, while the "American flag blue" lining began peeling shortly after completion in June, with algae returning to the water.
- Trump berated Pirro publicly, saying she "choked" and "folded like an umbrella," sparking a schism between them; Fox News has reduced coverage to seven minutes from 184 minutes in June.
- Pirro now faces potential judicial sanctions, an inspector general investigation, and disbarment, as analysts argue her case exemplifies risks of a "MAGA media pipeline" prioritizing performative loyalty over professional qualifications.
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El Periódico
informacion.esDonald Trump promised that the rehabilitation of Washington's Reflective Pond would be a marvel of efficiency, savings and unparalleled beauty. A milestone in line with the occasion: the great fastos to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, which hosted last July 4th the "best president of history" of the country, in the words of the Republican himself. But the thing has ended as almost always, a superlative fiasco. With delays, …
The restoration of the Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C. was supposed to be a prestige project, but ended in a bureaucratic farce....
The Independent
The Independent (US)How Trump’s ‘pool guy’ rush job to fix the Reflecting Pool was doomed from the start
A damning report about the president’s relentless pursuit to overhaul the Washington, DC, landmark contains excruciating new details about the botched renovation project
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