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Atlantic Industrial Coatings acknowledges design and execution errors caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner to peel.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the private contractor responsible for renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, informed the administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan caused the pool's new blue liner to peel and break loose. This contradicts the official line maintained by President Trump, who has insisted that nefarious criminals were primarily responsible for the problems plaguing the renovation project.

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Government documents show that Atlantic Industrial Coatings identified a combination of human oversight and the use of incompatible chemicals as the primary causes of the issues. These reports were submitted to the government alongside daily progress updates from the National Park Service over the last two months. While federal prosecutors have dropped all pending criminal charges against the accused vandals, President Trump continues to assert that the pool was vandalized. He recently stated that anyone who thinks the Reflecting Pool was not vandalized should go back to law school.

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