Donald Trump spirals furiously as reflecting pool saga ends in humiliating climbdown

Trump lashed out at his long-time ally after she admitted his hand-picked contractors botched the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool refurb - and not, as he has repeatedly claimed, "vandals"

As charges are dropped against ex-Olympian, flawed work by Trump-connected contractor emerges as culprit Donald Trump’s Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool saga appears to be winding down after prosecutors dropped vandalism charges against former Olympian David Hearn. On Friday, Trump appointee and US attorney Jeanine Pir

Daniel Heuer / REUTERS The “radical vandals” President Donald Trump blamed for ruining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have turned out not to be the culprits after all. The president repeatedly accused unknown “thugs” of slicing into the landmark after its multimillion-dollar renovation, but his own Justice Depar