Framed by the White House? Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco

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Donald Trump’s multi-million-dollar plan to beautify Washington DC’s Reflecting Pool seems to have backfired into an algae disaster. Is the president now trying to jail an Olympic athlete to cover his own tracks? Katy Balls, Washington editor and columnist at The Times and The Sunday Times Gerard Baker, columnist at The Times and editor at large at The Wall Street Journal They were speaking on The State of It USA podcast. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/jD3IivbPEf8 00:00 - Trump's DC Reflecting Pool Renovation Fiasco 00:55 - Algae Outbreaks & Vandalism Charges Dropped 01:33 - Trump Blasts Jeanine Pirro: "She Folded Like an Umbrella" 02:14 - Targeting the Public: A New Low for the Administration 03:03 - The Dodgy Contract & Shoddy Workmanship Exposed 04:21 - Covering Up Ineptitude: The DOJ Fallout Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube

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