President Trump on Sunday ordered repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after alleging recent vandalism, according to Axios. The landmark finished a fourteen-million-dollar renovation just weeks earlier, but has been plagued by algae—and now, Trump claims, by deliberate damage. He alleges a two hundred fifty-foot gash and corrosive chemicals dumped into the pool. Details are unclear, though: the National Park Service has been treating algae with hydrogen peroxide, which can also remove paint. One person was arrested, though Olympic cyclist David Hearn says he only touched a detached blue liner. And a contractor angle emerged: a one point seven million dollar water-purification contract was awarded without competitive bidding to a firm linked to Trump donor John Cafaro, who has prior felony convictions.

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