Trump Team's Secret Shortcut Plot for His Vanity Project Leaks

President Donald Trump’s officials appear to have quietly schemed to break ground on his coveted D.C. “triumphal arch” by tacking the job onto an unrelated engineering project.

Messages obtained by the Washington Post shed light on the April correspondence between National Park Service acting director Jessica Bowron and the president’s team.

Bowron asked whether a deal already held with engineering giant AECOM for work on White House grounds could be stretched to cover a survey of the nearly 280-foot monument’s future home.

The plot set aside for the arch sits over a mile from the White House. Bowron herself acknowledged that fact in her email, but said that extending the existing contract would allow work on the arch to “align with the administration’s timeline.”

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