US President \u2060Donald Trump posted on Saturday \u2060that he disagrees with his \u2060own Justice Department\u2019s findings that a flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the lining of the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington to peel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of \u200cColumbia, on the Reflecting Pool,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. \u201cI don\u2019t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a court filing on Friday, Pirro and Assistant US Attorney Michael Spence asked a judge to drop the Trump administration\u2019s case against David Hearn, 67, a \u2060former Olympian it had accused of vandalising the pool, which has become a flashpoint over Trump\u2019s \u200cefforts to remake Washington.<\/p>\n
The renovated pool had quickly developed blooms of algae that tinted the water green, while pieces of the blue lining \u200chad peeled off.<\/p>\n
Trump, facing criticism over the US$14.7 million renovation, had repeatedly blamed the problems \u2060on vandals he \u2060alleged had intentionally sabotaged the project.<\/p>\n
In their filing on Friday, federal prosecutors said the latest documents they received from \u200cthe Department of the Interior \u201cindicated a rushed and flawed installation process, with repeated failures of the lining during the installation process, \u200cand extensive \u200cpeeling of the lining throughout the Reflecting Pool\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President \u2060Donald Trump posted on Saturday \u2060that he disagrees with his \u2060own Justice Department\u2019s findings that a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,323850,72431,12,16675,310545,338707,3,338709,305261,4637,21,19,22,20,25,338708,51326,24,39118,2002],"class_list":["post-798081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-david-hearn","tag-department-of-the-interior","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice-department","tag-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool","tag-michael-spence","tag-news","tag-pirro","tag-reflecting-pool","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-attorney-for-the-district-of-columbia","tag-us-park-police","tag-usa","tag-vandalism","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}