Donald Trump used a government exemption to give a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his “pool guy” to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to an ocean-blue color after complaining it “never looked great.”

The exemption is typically reserved for urgent situations to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government”, according to documents reviewed in an exclusive report by The New York Times.

But Trump used the exemption to get the company, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, to quickly begin work on the memorial as part of an array of building projects and refurbishments taking place across Washington D.C. ahead of America’s 250th birthday this year.

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[–] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pool Guy probably thinks he's going to get paid.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    100% chance he took this as an opportunity to actually get the money Trump hasn't paid him previously. And I can't really fault him much for that honestly.

    Someone was going to get paid for this stupid shit, might as well be someone who's been fucked over in the past to try and make them whole.

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