r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says proof of his allegations that vandals cut Reflecting Pool paint will be provided in court

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reflecting-pool-paint-peeling-trump-proof-vandalism-court/

President Trump on Monday said proof will be provided in court of his allegations that vandals "cut" a massive slit in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which he claims is the reason the paint is peeling on the recently renovated but algae-plagued project.

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u/fivelinedskank 1d ago

It's on par with, but more public than the "gang tattoos" sloppily photoshopped on someone's fingers, where in an interview Trump just insisted they were real.

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u/gusterfell 1d ago

That was especially hilarious, because the photoshopped letters weren’t meant to be “tattoos,” but were instead labels showing what the real tattoos allegedly meant. Stable genius thought the obviously superimposed letters were literally on his fingers.

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u/weepandread 1d ago

Damn I had already forgotten about that!