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Trump Reflecting Pool Arrests Take Unnerving Turn--and Officials Go Mum
Jun 29, 2026 THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
Donald Trump has insisted (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTr...) six people have been arrested and many more have been given citations for vandalizing the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. This allegedly includes carving a 350-foot gash in the pool’s sealant, and in a dark and angry tirade (
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...) , Trump just described these people as akin to enemies of the state. But The New York Times just obtained a new statement (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us...) from federal prosecutors. While they confirmed some citations, the Times also reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us...) that administration officials and prosecutors are refusing to provide a single detail about what happened, refusing to divulge anything about who’s been targeted or what their offenses were, and refusing to confirm any arrests of any kind. As former prosecutor Ankush Khardori (https://khardori.com/) tells us in today’s episode, this is deeply strange. We discuss why it’s unusual for officials to clam up about such a high-profile claim, how this raises unnerving possibilities about the unhinged despot in the Oval Office, and why it all points to a deeper rot of Trumpian corruption