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Reflecting Fool: How Jesse Watters helped push Trump's bogus vandalism story
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Media Matters for America
When Fox News host turned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro dropped a high-profile case and acknowledged the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had not occurred, Pirro left her former colleague Jesse Watters out to dry.
Watters had repeatedly portrayed the supposed vandals as America-hating leftists bent on destroying the country, devoting several segments to the story in increasingly explicit terms.
Watters pushes Trump, Department of Interior pool “vandals” storyWatters began promoting Trump’s allegations that the pool had been vandalized on June 22, while still leaving space for the possibility that the damage had been caused by faulty installation.
“On the Reflecting Pool, Trump said that they have evidence of someone slicing and dicing the bottom of the pool and that evidence will be shown in court,” he told resident Democratic panelist Jessica Tarlov on The Five.
And you're pointing a finger at a pool he's trying to make better.