Trump threatens lawsuit against ABC News for reflecting pool coverage, claims Biden admin wanted to spend $100 million
Trump threatened to sue ABC News over its Reflecting Pool vandalism coverage, claiming the Biden administration wasted over $100 million on the project.Summary
Trump posted on Truth Social accusing ABC News of “FAKE NEWS” for its coverage of vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, threatened a lawsuit, and claimed the Biden administration had wasted over $100 million on the pool while his own administration spent about $16 million and achieved a good result before the damage. He described the vandalism as a violent cut with a box‑cutter, said the pool newly applied “American flag blue” coating later peeled and algae turned the water green, noted the renovation cost over $16 million—$4 million over budget—and said Interior Department officials attributed the algae to residual supply lines, reported at least five arrests and five federal citations for vandalism, and warned that damaging federal monuments carries a ten‑year prison sentence.
(Source：Mint)