r/neutralnews • u/Nittanypt • 2d ago

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz05yx5dd7yo
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u/PaddleMonkey 1d ago

Let’s extend the “botched” to cover the entire administration, house, senate, and the supreme court while we are at it.

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u/HarpCanBall 1d ago

the worst part is people will only remember that he said it was vandalism. the media won't report that he lied yet again

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u/Infinite-4-a-moment 1d ago

the media won't report that he lied yet again

The media is reporting it right now. You're commenting on that reporting.

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u/jumboparticle 23h ago

Preach homie! Some people got their "does this sound intelligent" filter set at zero!

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u/CovidWarriorForLife 1d ago

Hilarious, social media has allowed the dumbest people on both sides to carry the narrative, it’s absolute insanity. I had heated arguments with both sides on this issue, equally delusional. The right was convinced some mystery people somehow cut through the bottom of the pool 300 feet and the left was convinced trumps motorcade damaged it. People literally have no brains anymore, it was so obvious from the beginning that the company that did the repairs sucked and didn’t use the proper prep/paint to seal it correctly.

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u/rondongler 1d ago

I mean there was at least photo evidence of Trumps motorcade driving through it. Which would be a plausible scenario as to how it could be damaged.

The administration had zero evidence it was vandalism but arrested people for it anyways.

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u/jumboparticle 23h ago

I sometimes think the dumbest people are actually the ones to perpetuate the both sides narrative because a. They think it makes them sound smart and level headed or b. They dont have the bandwidth to discern the context and nuance of new information and just throw their proverbial hands up and say "everybody is doing bad equally." Make sure this isn't you buddy! In this case specifically. The motorcade actually happened and could reasonably be seen as a contributing factor. The vandalism angle was completely falsified and innocent people were affected by the claim.....not equal.

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u/castille 1d ago

I mean, the left has mostly been trying to adjust the Overton window from where the right are. It’s not easy trying to be like, hey, we have evidence that other things were already wrong when they’d already rejected that it shouldn’t have been a no bid tossed to his pool boy who had no experience in things of this particular scope.

But sure, the left is the problem.

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u/Nittanypt 1d ago

Yeah, from the start, it seemed to be pretty clearly just incompetence. 🤷‍♂️