Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 45 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 9.
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He was going to change the look of it.
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So this is him back in the spring talking about what his plans were going to be and how great he thought it was going to be.
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And he went about doing it in a very Trumpian way, of course.
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He awarded a contract to people he knew who'd worked on swimming pools in his own golf properties before.
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Nobody else was allowed to bid on it, even though it was a federal contract.
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So after just days after it was reopened,
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Firstly, there was more algae blooming across it than ever had been seen there before.
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So it was bright green, not American flag blue.
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And also this rubber seal, the base of it that had been put in that he claimed was so strong you could never cut it with a knife, started falling to bits.
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And you could see pieces of it floating on the surface of this blue plastic liner.
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And that's when he decided that it was vandalism.
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that had done this.
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It wasn't a botched installation, it was definitely vandal.
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So even though we just heard him saying, you couldn't cut this with a knife even if you tried to, that's when he said it happened, that somebody had cut a 350-foot gash in this pool, which would be quite a feat, actually, if you were going to try and do that.
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But that was the story about what had gone wrong with the pool.
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Yeah, but let's listen to Janine Pirro and the story she was telling last month when they were still sticking to this idea that it was vandalism, which, and remember, this is in complete contrast to her department filing charges at the end of last week saying it had nothing to do with vandalism.
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So listen to what she had to say in July.
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Yeah, and we've got this weird row now going on between Doug Burgum, who is the interior secretary, and Janine Pirro.
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So Friday, her department moved to drop the charges, saying that it is interior department documents that have shown them that it was a botched installation that was the problem, not vandalism.
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The next day, Doug Burgum says on X that vandals repeatedly damaged the site.
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