Nothing about what happened Friday, when the Justice Department dropped its case against a purported Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandal, was completely surprising.
But that’s also what makes it so scandalous.
The administration was pressed repeatedly about the possibility that the damage to the Reflecting Pool wasn’t caused by vandals. Maybe it was just shoddy installation from the no-bid contractor that President Donald Trump hired. Maybe it was just a rushed job, reporters posited, given Trump wanted the pool ready for Independence Day celebrations.
But the administration repeatedly and forcefully rejected these theories, straining
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