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Trump’s Freedom 250 event on National
Mall sabotaged by vandals — contaminating
underground water with fuel

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Posted By: mc squared, 6/2/2026 11:46:54 AM

Vandals sabotaged generators at an event for President Trump’s Freedom 250 event, according to a spokeswoman — and fuel leached into underground water tanks, contaminating them. A generator fuel line set up for temporary lights for a May 17 event was was cut, causing it to seep into underground cisterns that collect rainwater under the Washington, DC, landmark, Freedom 250 spokeswoman Rachel Reisner told NBC News. “Following the Freedom 250 team’s installation of temporary lighting on the National Mall, our equipment has been repeatedly targeted by vandals. The recent fuel leak was the direct result of that tampering,” she said.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: cor-vet 6/2/2026 12:10:24 PM (No. 2111783)
Let's make the democrats cover the cost of making this right.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: 68BattleofBealeVet 6/2/2026 12:22:53 PM (No. 2111785)
More security will be required everywhere.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: wilarrbie 6/2/2026 12:51:14 PM (No. 2111789)
Dogs in the manger. They are unhappy and will make everyone else unhappy. And will toss even their own shibboleths (like environmental purity) overboard to achieve their goals of shutting everything down if they suspect someone is planning to be happy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/2/2026 1:38:30 PM (No. 2111803)
Sagretti is still working?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jethro bo 6/2/2026 2:14:47 PM (No. 2111809)
And so it begins. See Krugman's call to action article above. on the main page.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: skacmar 6/2/2026 2:53:43 PM (No. 2111829)
1. IT IS NOT TRUMP'S FREEDOM 250 EVENT! It is the nations 250th birthday celebration and this is one of the events scheduled to honor it. 2. Those calling this nonpartisan event POLITICAL are the ones who are making it a political, partisan event. Their comments, protests, and resistance to the event are only because Donald Trump is President. Would the lefty liberal resistance be acting the same if Obama or Biden were in charge? I hope they catch the vandals and prosecute them for vandalism & destruction of federal property.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: voxpopuli 6/2/2026 5:19:33 PM (No. 2111872)
not vandals TERRORISTS.. don't use the msm language..
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Proud Texan 6/2/2026 8:07:00 PM (No. 2111952)
Find the "vandals" that did this and add environmental crimes to their charges. Let's see if any of the enviro-mentalists stand up for the environment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: banal_resentive 6/3/2026 1:19:53 AM (No. 2112026)
Geeze, wasn't there any on-site security for the equipment? With all the TDS around DC the organizers should have realized it wouldn't be a "high trust" area. We're dealing with politically motivated violent barbarians attempting guerilla warfare in and around the blue cities - especially DC.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 6/3/2026 7:19:05 AM (No. 2112085)
More violence by the tolerant Left. I would have hoped that there were surveillance cameras.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rumblehog 6/3/2026 7:59:39 AM (No. 2112126)
Perhaps it was some paid Antifa goons?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: felixcat 6/3/2026 8:41:01 AM (No. 2112167)
I realize the FBI and DOJ abused their power to go after peaceful J6 protesters but what the heck is going on with all these thugs trashing federal property like the ICE detention center in NJ, assaulting police and legitimate independent journalists, etc? Where is all the federal law enforcement that we pay a lot of tax dollars for?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: BarryNo 6/3/2026 10:18:00 AM (No. 2112213)
It's about time to start treating these people as the public enemies they are.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: tangles 6/3/2026 8:23:32 PM (No. 2112413)
It's time for parents to be locked in the same cell as their kid. Period. Everybody has a parent. Time to round them up!
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