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Donald Trump famously came to Washington, DC to “drain the swamp,” but he may have inadvertently created one.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and algae this morning. Photo by Sean Rameswaram/Vox.
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