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#Trump insists 'there's pictures' no one else has seen of a vandal cutting the lining of the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool Donald Trump once again devoted a large portion of an Oval Office event to insisting, without evidence, that his troubled renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, plagued by #algae blooms and a #peeling polyurethane liner, was actually caused by vandals. Asked by a reporter if the repairs to the pool would be completed by the Fourth of July, Trump said, “It’s in great shape” before launching into a 1300-word monologue on how the project was done perfectly, but then sabotaged by “thugs” who “went down with probably a box cutter, or a very sharp razor of some kind, or knife, and they cut and… started ripping it up. You know why? Because they’re sick people.” Trump then repeated his claim that there is visual evidence, in the form of photographs or video, of at least one vandal engaged in this attack on the polyurethane liner the president had installed, at a cost of over $14m – images, which, for some reason, no one else but him appears to have seen. “They have pictures”, the president insisted. “They took razor blades and they cut patches like that 350-ft long. A lot of them are like a foot, a foot, a foot. They cut the lining and there’s pictures of the guy bending over. I don’t know if anybody saw that, but there are pictures of the guy.” Despite repeated requests from journalists to see these supposed pictures the president continues to say exist, the White House, the parks department and the interior department have so far failed to produce even one such image. Trump, of course, has form for insisting that there is visual evidence to support his false claims that things that never happened did happen. As a candidate for the presidency in late 2015, Trump told his supporters that he had “watched” television images on September 11 2001 that showed “thousands and thousands” of Arabs in New Jersey “cheering” as “the World Trade Center came tumbling down.” #NeverTrustTrump #uspol #TrumpRegime #ReflectingPool #DementedDon #auspol