Trump critic says FBI visited him over critical comments - on Reflecting Pool restoration

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/reflecting-pool-2677068612/

Trump critic says FBI visited him over critical comments – on Reflecting Pool restoration

Alexander Willis
June 20, 2026 9:49AM ET

Political strategist and commentator Keith Edwards claimed Friday that he was paid a visit by the FBI over comments he made online – more specifically, comments about President Donald Trump’s botched $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued with algae and peeling paint just days after completion.

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“The FBI just showed up at my door because I tweeted about people picking up paint debris and sending it to me,” Edwards wrote Friday evening. “I asked them where's Savannah Guthrie's mom.”

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(It’s later than you think.)

[malaise]

1. "I asked them where's Savannah Guthrie's mom."

Well done.

[Walleye]

2. Good keep pounding their failure in what should be their specialty, kidnapping

Silencing critics of the president is not really part of their law enforcement mission. But they’ll take our money anyway.

[sop]

7. And silencing critics for talking about something as ridiculous as the paint peeling from the bottom of Trump's

"Reflecting Lake" is really not the FBI's job. There are so many other things they could be investigating...you know, important stuff...like why the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk doesn't match the rifle they say was used by Tyler Robinson.

[Walleye]

8. The Charlie Kirk murder and other public assassination have not been thoroughly explored or explained

[ret5hd]

3. "no warrant? fuck off"...slam.

[Jimvanhise]

4. APPARENTLY THE TRUMP REGIME CONTAINS NO SCIENTISTS

The water in the reflecting pool is pumped in from the algae infested Potomac River instead of using pure city water. And the chemicals dump in to treat the algae are causing the paint to peel, vandals not required.

[quakerboy]

5. Will there be anything salvagable

I start from the assumption that one way or another, someday we will reclaim democracy in this country. Hopefully soon.

But I wonder if there will be anything salvageable.

ICE and the ballroom will HAVE to be torn down and their functions rebuilt from scratch. Both are corrupt to the core. If the ballroom actually appears, nothing that goes through that section of the white house can be trusted to be free of Russian and other countries spyware, hard embedded into the concrete and not removable.

It seems almost certain that the Secret service will have to be gutted and rebuilt. The people that helped trump with his publicity stunts are not people that can be trusted with the safety of anyone. The reflecting pool seems likely to need extensive repairs after all of this.

But.. The IRS. the FBI. The CIA. The social security department.

What will be left that is salvageable, and will we elect people with the intestinal fortitude to take on the hard tasks of building new and getting rid of the institutions and things that are too degraded or corrupted to be fixed?

[BComplex]

6. We need to start suing the administration for first amendment harassments.

This republican majority at the supreme court needs to be fired. And I'll probably get an FBI visit myself for saying that. What a fucking mess the republican party has put this country in.