Burgum Claims Multiple Trump Threats at Lincoln Reflecting Pool as 7 Arrests Follow Vandalism
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Updated · The Daily Beast · Jun 27
Burgum Claims Multiple Trump Threats at Lincoln Reflecting Pool as 7 Arrests Follow Vandalism
3 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · Jun 27
Summary
Doug Burgum said multiple previously unreported threatening messages against President Trump were found on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool grounds and in the pool before it was refilled.
Seven arrests and 18 police reports have been tied to alleged vandalism there, Burgum told Fox News, though he gave no details on the threats or how the messages were made.
Court records so far show only one person charged—an Olympian who denies damaging the pool—while Burgum and Trump have both said vandals used box cutters to tear up the lining.
No evidence has been publicly provided by the Interior Department, the White House or the National Park Service to support the vandalism claims, even as officials frame the damage as an attack on a protected monument.
The allegations land after '86 47' was found defacing National Mall grass earlier in June, a slogan also central to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over an Instagram post.