{"id":3516,"date":"2026-07-05T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:41:46","slug":"ex-rnc-chair-torches-doug-burgums-reflecting-pool-story-we-know-that-did-not-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"Ex-RNC chair torches Doug Burgum’s Reflecting Pool story: ‘We know that did not happen’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s attempts to blame a sea of reflecting pool troubles on D.C. vandals instead of D.C. incompetence left one Republican sputtering. <\/p>\n

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Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, took to X Sunday afternoon to share his views on a tense CNN interview that saw Burgum snapping at anchor Dana Bash. <\/p>\n

“I’m not sure why you and others and the media think you want to question the whole thing,” Burgum spat at Bash.<\/p>\n

Steele replied, “We question Mr. Secretary because we know that ish (sic) did not happen.”<\/p>\n

Burgum snapped after facing repeated questions about the Trump administration’s failed $14 million effort to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American flag blue.”<\/p>\n

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Bash quizzed Burgum about a peeling liner that allowed algae to return and ruin the effect of a perfectly blue pool and requested details about claims that vandalism was to blame.<\/p>\n

“You’re a hundred percent sure that what happened with the liner was vandalism?” Bash asked. “You can prove it?”<\/p>\n

Burgum said he could \u2014 Steele wasn’t so sure. <\/p>\n

“You know there are cameras on the Pool 24hrs (sic), right?” he wrote. “You do not have photographs of anyone submerging in the Reflecting Pool to cut a gash longer than a football field. But we do have video and photos of the liner peeling from the floor of the pool.”<\/p>\n

Then Steele made a request of Burgum. <\/p>\n

“Stop it,” he said. “As soon as you are asked to prove vandalism, you whine about why you are being questioned about it.” <\/p>\n

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