Panicked Trump, 80, Spins Wild Tale When Cornered on Pool Slime

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President Donald Trump has sought to blame his botched Reflecting Pool renovations on unidentified saboteurs he claims entered the pool with a box cutter and began slicing it up.

The 80-year-old president insisted on Monday that the collapse of his much-hyped project wasn’t the result of bad planning, questionable contracting, or a giant blue-painted basin baking in Washington’s summer heat.

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