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"It's the same as if they were throwing paint on the Lincoln statue." Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says vandalizing the Reflecting Pool is being treated as an attack on a national monument, with authorities already making seven arrests, issuing multiple citations, and filing 18 police reports tied to damage...

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President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are both rejecting the conclusion by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro that contractors caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to peel. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi spoke with the lawyer representing David Hearn after the charges against his client were dropped.
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President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are both rejecting the conclusion by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro that contractors caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to peel. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi spoke with the lawyer representing David Hearn after the charges against his client were dropped.

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BREAKING: President Trump RAGES over alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. — and drops video that purportedly shows it happening. Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Look for yourselves at the VANDALISM that took place at The Reflecting Pool. The material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter, for all to see!”
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BREAKING: President Trump RAGES over alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. — and drops video that purportedly shows it happening. Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Look for yourselves at the VANDALISM that took place at The Reflecting Pool. The material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter, for all to see!”

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Trump calls him at all hours of the day to check on everything from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to energy projects across the country. “[Trump] starts out ‘I didn't wake you up, did I?’” he told Jonathan Martin. 🔗
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Trump calls him at all hours of the day to check on everything from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to energy projects across the country. “[Trump] starts out ‘I didn't wake you up, did I?’” he told Jonathan Martin. 🔗

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Fences were seen surrounding the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. last week ahead of the July 4th holiday. It comes as a top official with the National Park Service said in a court filing that the agency reported damage to the pool caused by a sharp knife.
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Fences were seen surrounding the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. last week ahead of the July 4th holiday. It comes as a top official with the National Park Service said in a court filing that the agency reported damage to the pool caused by a sharp knife.

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"This is what the American people elected President Trump to do." White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt joined Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 and blasted the so-called "pro-algae" protesters who gathered near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, dismissing the demonstration as another attempt to mock the Trump administration. The stunt came after the recently renovated Reflecting Pool became the subject of viral attention over algae growth and ongoing repairs. President Trump has accused vandals of damaging the site, and multiple arrests have been made in connection with alleged vandalism at the pool. Leavitt said the administration remains focused on delivering on the agenda voters elected President Trump to carry out.
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"This is what the American people elected President Trump to do." White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt joined Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 and blasted the so-called "pro-algae" protesters who gathered near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, dismissing the demonstration as another attempt to mock the Trump administration. The stunt came after the recently renovated Reflecting Pool became the subject of viral attention over algae growth and ongoing repairs. President Trump has accused vandals of damaging the site, and multiple arrests have been made in connection with alleged vandalism at the pool. Leavitt said the administration remains focused on delivering on the agenda voters elected President Trump to carry out.

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"They caught them." President Trump says the vandals accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have been caught, alleging they used a box cutter or other sharp object to slash the newly restored pool and dumped fertilizer into the water. Speaking during the White House Rose Garden Club Dinner with American farmers, Trump said the suspects "have some problems ahead of them" and described them as "sick people." Trump praised crews for quickly restoring the Reflecting Pool, saying it “looks beautiful.”
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"They caught them." President Trump says the vandals accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have been caught, alleging they used a box cutter or other sharp object to slash the newly restored pool and dumped fertilizer into the water. Speaking during the White House Rose Garden Club Dinner with American farmers, Trump said the suspects "have some problems ahead of them" and described them as "sick people." Trump praised crews for quickly restoring the Reflecting Pool, saying it “looks beautiful.”

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President Trump on Thursday said the vandals accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were caught. Trump said the alleged vandals used a box cutter or a sharp object to slash the bottom and "threw fertilizer in the water."
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President Trump on Thursday said the vandals accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were caught. Trump said the alleged vandals used a box cutter or a sharp object to slash the bottom and "threw fertilizer in the water."

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Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson: “After a $14M renovation on the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the green algae is back, and workers are trying to kill it using chemicals. The project was initially supposed to cost $2M. There also appear to be problems with the new coating installed at the bottom of the pool.” “The Interior Department says it has deployed advanced nanobubbler technology to kill the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening since 1922.”
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Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson: “After a $14M renovation on the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the green algae is back, and workers are trying to kill it using chemicals. The project was initially supposed to cost $2M. There also appear to be problems with the new coating installed at the bottom of the pool.” “The Interior Department says it has deployed advanced nanobubbler technology to kill the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening since 1922.”

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🚨 NOW: President Trump just DROPPED the confirmation that leftists and an Olympian were ARRESTED for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool TDS is a mental illness, they push for filth and dilapidation over ANYTHING "Multiple people, including a former U.S. Olympian, have now been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the newly renovated reflecting pool and the nation's capital." "They're accusing him of being one of several individuals, of trying to sabotage the project with a pair of arrests being made so far. In fact, the president said as much in a post on TRUTH Social, announcing, quote, 'many additional people have been arrested, having to do with the disgraceful vandalism of our beautiful reflecting pool.'" "'What these terrible vandals have done is a true affront to both presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly.'"
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🚨 NOW: President Trump just DROPPED the confirmation that leftists and an Olympian were ARRESTED for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool TDS is a mental illness, they push for filth and dilapidation over ANYTHING "Multiple people, including a former U.S. Olympian, have now been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the newly renovated reflecting pool and the nation's capital." "They're accusing him of being one of several individuals, of trying to sabotage the project with a pair of arrests being made so far. In fact, the president said as much in a post on TRUTH Social, announcing, quote, 'many additional people have been arrested, having to do with the disgraceful vandalism of our beautiful reflecting pool.'" "'What these terrible vandals have done is a true affront to both presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly.'"

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Multiple people, including former U.S. Olympian David Hearn, were arrested over the weekend for allegedly vandalizing the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. President Trump wrote in Part on Truth Social: “Many additional people have been arrested having to do with the disgraceful Vandalizing of our beautiful Reflecting Pool.” “What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly.” “They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool.” “We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we will get it repaired, quickly, to an equal level of Beauty.”
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Multiple people, including former U.S. Olympian David Hearn, were arrested over the weekend for allegedly vandalizing the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. President Trump wrote in Part on Truth Social: “Many additional people have been arrested having to do with the disgraceful Vandalizing of our beautiful Reflecting Pool.” “What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly.” “They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool.” “We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we will get it repaired, quickly, to an equal level of Beauty.”

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Renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a high priority for President Trump, was completed last week, but the water has already turned green with algae and paint is beginning to peel. Jonathan Karl reports. Read more:
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Renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a high priority for President Trump, was completed last week, but the water has already turned green with algae and paint is beginning to peel. Jonathan Karl reports. Read more:

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🚨 NOW: Interior Sec. Doug Burgum UNLEASHES on the Democrats who keep whining about President Trump's restoration of the filthy Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "This thing has been FAILING, 40,000 gallons per day that's [leaking] out of this thing!" "That's MILLIONS in a year!" "We took out 2.5 MILES worth of rotting seam material that connects to different components in the base of the pool for where these expansion joints are." "There's been a lot of, I don't want to call it mocking, maybe it's just misunderstanding about the color. The color, American flag blue, is meant to enhance the reflectivity. It's called the REFLECTING POOL." "It's not a look to the bottom and see how deep it is pool. It's a reflecting pool, and anyone that is, from the experts in the city, you know, if you want to have a reflecting pool in some kind of fountain or some kind of place around the world, you want to have a dark base on the color." "There was a time in history when this reflecting pool was actually asphalt black." "It's the same blue as the navy blue, it's an American flag. So it's the appropriate color choice, and I think when it's completed, people are going to see that, again, 47 million people come to the National Mall every year." Perfectly said.
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🚨 NOW: Interior Sec. Doug Burgum UNLEASHES on the Democrats who keep whining about President Trump's restoration of the filthy Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "This thing has been FAILING, 40,000 gallons per day that's [leaking] out of this thing!" "That's MILLIONS in a year!" "We took out 2.5 MILES worth of rotting seam material that connects to different components in the base of the pool for where these expansion joints are." "There's been a lot of, I don't want to call it mocking, maybe it's just misunderstanding about the color. The color, American flag blue, is meant to enhance the reflectivity. It's called the REFLECTING POOL." "It's not a look to the bottom and see how deep it is pool. It's a reflecting pool, and anyone that is, from the experts in the city, you know, if you want to have a reflecting pool in some kind of fountain or some kind of place around the world, you want to have a dark base on the color." "There was a time in history when this reflecting pool was actually asphalt black." "It's the same blue as the navy blue, it's an American flag. So it's the appropriate color choice, and I think when it's completed, people are going to see that, again, 47 million people come to the National Mall every year." Perfectly said.

Eric Daugherty

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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro describes the immense damage inflicted on the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial. “I think it’s very sad that someone did a tremendous amount of damage to the pool, and you can even see where all the cutting is.” These people are deranged. They hate you. They hate our country. This deserves swift justice.
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro describes the immense damage inflicted on the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial. “I think it’s very sad that someone did a tremendous amount of damage to the pool, and you can even see where all the cutting is.” These people are deranged. They hate you. They hate our country. This deserves swift justice.

Benny Johnson

111,999 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸 Someone took a box cutter and carved a 350-foot gash through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's rubber liner, spray painted "8647" along the way, and did it ten days before America's 250th birthday celebration. 7 arrests, 18 police reports, and now Interior Secretary Burgum on Fox promising full prosecution and calling it the equivalent of throwing paint on Lincoln's statue. The pool is now fenced off ahead of July 4 fireworks. Repairs won't be done in time. Whatever your politics, slashing a 350-foot gash through a 1922 national monument with a box cutter 2 weeks before the country's 250th anniversary is a genuinely stupid way to make a point and these 7 people are about to find out exactly how seriously the federal government takes it. Source: Fox News / Writer: Oliver
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🇺🇸 Someone took a box cutter and carved a 350-foot gash through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's rubber liner, spray painted "8647" along the way, and did it ten days before America's 250th birthday celebration. 7 arrests, 18 police reports, and now Interior Secretary Burgum on Fox promising full prosecution and calling it the equivalent of throwing paint on Lincoln's statue. The pool is now fenced off ahead of July 4 fireworks. Repairs won't be done in time. Whatever your politics, slashing a 350-foot gash through a 1922 national monument with a box cutter 2 weeks before the country's 250th anniversary is a genuinely stupid way to make a point and these 7 people are about to find out exactly how seriously the federal government takes it. Source: Fox News / Writer: Oliver

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1,546,334 views • 2 months ago

.Secretary Doug Burgum: "There's over 20 sites where all the fountains are being fixed... whether it's fixing a historic marble fountain or fixing the Reflecting Pool, we have the team that can get it done. The place is never going to look better, and that's thanks to President Donald J. Trump."
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.Secretary Doug Burgum: "There's over 20 sites where all the fountains are being fixed... whether it's fixing a historic marble fountain or fixing the Reflecting Pool, we have the team that can get it done. The place is never going to look better, and that's thanks to President Donald J. Trump."

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DOUG BURGUM ON REFLECTING POOL VANDALISM: “We had very few or no cameras at the beginning because we have cameras all over our monuments. “The reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial, but there had never been vandalism on this helpless, harmless reflecting pool before. “Until President Trump decided to beautify it, then others decided it was a point of attack. But we got mobile camera stations and towers in that captured some of the secondary activity. “We did have some vandalism starting as early as June 9, which we didn’t advertise because we didn’t want to have copycats. But we started putting up cameras, and we’ve got better camera coverage today.”
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DOUG BURGUM ON REFLECTING POOL VANDALISM: “We had very few or no cameras at the beginning because we have cameras all over our monuments. “The reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial, but there had never been vandalism on this helpless, harmless reflecting pool before. “Until President Trump decided to beautify it, then others decided it was a point of attack. But we got mobile camera stations and towers in that captured some of the secondary activity. “We did have some vandalism starting as early as June 9, which we didn’t advertise because we didn’t want to have copycats. But we started putting up cameras, and we’ve got better camera coverage today.”

Katie Miller

30,893 views • 1 month ago

🚨 JUST IN — EXCLUSIVE: United States Park Police are investigating an “86 47” inscription on the sealant of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool We discovered writing just now while walking the edge of the pool. This BS needs to end. This comes as mobile SURVEILLANCE TOWERS have been deployed around the pool, along with Park Police and National Guard on 24/7 watch. It’s insane to see that TDS is this bad that death threats are being written into the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial.
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🚨 JUST IN — EXCLUSIVE: United States Park Police are investigating an “86 47” inscription on the sealant of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool We discovered writing just now while walking the edge of the pool. This BS needs to end. This comes as mobile SURVEILLANCE TOWERS have been deployed around the pool, along with Park Police and National Guard on 24/7 watch. It’s insane to see that TDS is this bad that death threats are being written into the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial.

Nick Sortor

1,574,885 views • 2 months ago

This Week: Secretary Doug Burgum is on hand as President Donald J. Trump holds the first Cabinet meeting of his new administration, Secretary Burgum sends out his "welcome back to the office" message as most Interior employees have returned to their in-person workspaces, and more.
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This Week: Secretary Doug Burgum is on hand as President Donald J. Trump holds the first Cabinet meeting of his new administration, Secretary Burgum sends out his "welcome back to the office" message as most Interior employees have returned to their in-person workspaces, and more.

US Department of the Interior

86,745 views • 1 year ago

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is pushing for YEARS IN PRISON for the leftists ripping up and vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, CONFIRMS MULTIPLE ARRESTS Good! Maximum FAFO for the degenerates! 🔥 "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair. President DJT"
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is pushing for YEARS IN PRISON for the leftists ripping up and vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, CONFIRMS MULTIPLE ARRESTS Good! Maximum FAFO for the degenerates! 🔥 "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair. President DJT"

Eric Daugherty

168,198 views • 2 months ago

CNN’s Dana Bash: “It was July 4, and the Reflecting Pool was closed.” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: “It was closed because it's surrounded by fireworks. It's closed every year on the Fourth of July.” Dana Bash: “But it was closed prior to that in order to fix the Reflecting Pool.” Doug Burgum: “No, it was closed because the largest fireworks display in the country was set up, and it lines either side of the Reflecting Pool. You can't have people around fireworks when they're being set up.” “Now that the fireworks will come down, the fence will come down. The fence was there because of the fireworks.” NUKED!
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CNN’s Dana Bash: “It was July 4, and the Reflecting Pool was closed.” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: “It was closed because it's surrounded by fireworks. It's closed every year on the Fourth of July.” Dana Bash: “But it was closed prior to that in order to fix the Reflecting Pool.” Doug Burgum: “No, it was closed because the largest fireworks display in the country was set up, and it lines either side of the Reflecting Pool. You can't have people around fireworks when they're being set up.” “Now that the fireworks will come down, the fence will come down. The fence was there because of the fireworks.” NUKED!

RedWave Press

755,013 views • 1 month ago