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Donald Trump: “It was going to take three and a half years [to fix the…”

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President Trump Participates in a Small Business Summit

Published | Video Starts at 52:17

Because they were going to take the granite out and they were going to replace it with new granite, new stone, tighter joints, all that. It was going to take three and a half years [to fix the reflecting pool]. And I heard about it and I called Doug Burgum and I said, doug, what do you think? I built a lot of swimming pools, hundreds of swimming pools and different jobs. (52:17–52:21)

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Asserts that the repair of the reflecting pool was estimated to take three and a half years.

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