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President Donald Trump claims that his Reflecting Pool renovations failed because third-parties vandalized the institution \u2014 but a new story based on internal documents provides a different version of events.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Trump says the peeling blue coating and algae blooms that mar his $16.4 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are the fault of vandals working with \u2018knives\u2019 in the \u2018dark of night,\u2019\u201d in a story broken by The New York Times\u2019 Maxine Joselow and David A. Fahrenthold on Tuesday. \u201cBut government documents obtained by Times show that while National Park Service workers found two cuts in sections of foam between the pool\u2019s expansion joints, those were not directly related to the \u2018American flag blue\u2019 coating that is now peeling, or to the algae that has turned the pool a bright shade of green.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added that the documents show workers struggling to deal with problems in their renovations even as officials in the Trump administration insisted the pool was in excellent condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pool had been drained, resealed and then refilled by June 5,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cFour days later, Park Service workers discovered holes, cracks and peeling caulking in parts of the pool, along with cuts in sections of the foam, according to the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet there is no evidence the cuts were put there by saboteurs. Instead their provenance is \u201cunclear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile a June 9 report by the U.S. Park Police described the cuts as \u2018razor blade slashes\u2019 made along a 20-foot-long stretch of the foam, the administration has yet to present evidence supporting that assertion,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cThe documents reviewed by The Times described them as two 171-foot blade cuts but did not address how they were made.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cBy June 16, workers had noticed that chunks of blue sealant that covered the pool\u2019s bottom were peeling and floating to the surface, the documents show. That sealant was separate from the foam in the pool\u2019s expansion joints, which allow its concrete slabs to expand and contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, the workers found that they could not succeed in killing the algae that was blooming in the pool, and turning it swamp green instead of clear blue, despite installing devices for that purpose.<\/p>\n

It was also recently reported by Politico\/E&E reporters Kinnia Cheuk and Heather Richards that the Reflecting Pool will not be ready by the 4th of July celebrations as Trump promised.<\/p>\n

“President Donald Trump’s beloved Reflecting Pool liner \u2014 now peeling and cracked \u2014 won’t be fixed before Independence Day celebrations, according to the California company that supplied the waterproof coating,\u201d Cheuk and Richards reported. \u201cThat news will sink Trump’s wish to have the pool looking pristine for celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday.”<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump claims that his Reflecting Pool renovations failed because third-parties vandalized the institution \u2014 but a new story based on internal documents provides a different version of events.\u201cPresident Trump says the peeling blue coating and algae blooms that mar his $16.4 million r…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDebunked: Newly revealed docs bust Trump's vandalism guff - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2217\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Debunked: Newly revealed docs bust Trump's vandalism guff - 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