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A new arrest near the Lincoln Memorial adds a strange twist to President Trump's warning that vandals targeted the newly renovated Reflecting Pool.
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27 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
89/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
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A new arrest near the Lincoln Memorial adds a strange twist to President Trump's warning that vandals targeted the newly renovated Reflecting Pool.
President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism. He offered no details to back that up in social media posts Friday night and Saturday...
Paint seen peeling off in the water at pool site; investigation finds ICE agents disproportionately target people from Latin America – key US politics stories from Saturday 20 June at a gla...
The federal government awarded a company owned by a Trump donor $1.7 million to install a new water cleaning system for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, records show.
Donald Trump returned to his favorite subject Saturday evening, and his account of the great Reflecting Pool conspiracy grew more elaborate with every sentence. In a lengthy Truth Social po...
President Trump on Saturday said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely have to be drained to make the necessary repairs after vandals took a knife and put a 250 foot long gash in...
President Trump claimed on Saturday that multiple individuals have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as he seeks to deflect blame for ongoing wate...
President Donald Trump said Saturday that U.S. Park Police made multiple arrests connected to vandalism at the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and that repair work would...
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
U.S. Park Police arrested David Hearn, a 67-year-old resident of Bethesda, Maryland, and a three-time U.S. Olympian in canoe slalom, on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government pro...
Donald Trump says federal authorities have made "multiple arrests" of people he said were vandalising the Reflecting Pool, as he struggles to explain why the multi-million-dollar renovation...
Multiple people were reportedly arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prompting President Donald Trump to warn of serious jail time.
David Hearn faces charges of property destruction after reportedly removing paint from the National Mall's Reflecting Pool.
Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he'd line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
David Hearn, a former Olympic cyclist, was one person charged with property destruction by the US Park Police after trying to take paint from the Reflecting Pool.
A former Team USA Olympian has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the completion of President Donald Trump’s renovation.
A former Olympian was arrested and charged with "destruction of government property" after pausing his bike ride to check out the algae-ridden reflecting pool. The post Former Olympian Char...
A former US Olympian was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, according to a report.
The paint is peeling from Washington’s reflecting pool after the renovation ordered by President Donald Trump, and he is now alleging that someone damaged it intentionally. “We’ve had some...
U.S. Park Police arrested a cyclist and former Olympian for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. David Hearn, 67, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of destruction...
If you want evidence on how badly Trump thinks the reflecting pool fiasco is hurting him, look no further than his crazed Truth Social posts late last night. Truly deranged. Source: CNN Pre...
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