An honest man in TrumpWorld

I am beginning to think that not all of Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories are entirely on the level:

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, according to government documents reviewed by The New York Times.

President Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals wielding knives or box cutters for damage to the pool’s “American flag blue” liner, even after the Justice Department dropped charges that it had brought against people accused of vandalizing the national landmark.

But the documents, which have not previously been reported, make clear that the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, found problems in both the design and the execution of the renovation. The documents include Atlantic’s reports to the government as well as daily progress updates from the National Park Service over the past two months.

Atlantic blamed its own errors in a report dated Aug. 14 and then provided more detail on Sept. 2, the documents show. The Justice Department, which had charged several people with vandalizing the pool in early July, began moving to dismiss the cases on July 31.

I’ve seen some pundits/reporters poo-poo the reflecting pool as a trivial distraction etc. Call me a cringe lib but I think that prosecuting people on charges you know to be false to cover up for your own ineptitude is in fact a very bad abuse of power that is illustrative of the Trump regime in general.