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Stephanopoulos Corners Burgum: If It's a Success, Why Drain the Pool?
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Stephanopoulos goes where Bash left off, drilling into the central absurdity: Burgum is simultaneously calling the reflecting pool renovation a triumph and announcing it needs to be drained for repairs. The secretary's attempted escape route — claiming 99.99% of the 340,000-square-foot pool bottom is perfect, so the damage is proportionally tiny — is the kind of spin that sounds reasonable until you do the math. A 350-foot gash is a 350-foot gash. Burgum then breaks further ground by suggesting the pool might not need to be fully drained, that the cuts happened on the sloped edges, and that the press should 'move on' because there are great things going on. Stephanopoulos also confirms no video evidence exists. Burgum eventually contradicts himself by claiming there is both video and eyewitness evidence — 'up to the courts now' — without ever having shown that footage to the public.
George Stephanopoulos cornered Burgum with one simple question: if the reflecting pool renovation was a huge success, why is it being drained? Burgum's answer — that 99.99% was perfect but 350 feet were cut — only highlighted the absurdity of the administration's spin.
Burgum claimed 99.99% of the reflecting pool bottom was undamaged while simultaneously acknowledging a 350-foot gash — a logical contradiction.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum admitted there was no video footage of anyone cutting the reflecting pool liner, despite the administration's vandalism claim.
When asked whether the reflecting pool repair contract would be re-opened to bidding, Burgum confirmed the same no-bid contractor would be rehired. He called their work 'fantastic' — despite the 350-foot gash that emerged on their watch.
