FILE PHOTO: A logo for ABC is pictured atop a building in Burbank, California February 5, 2014.

KEY POINTS

• U.S. President claimed ABC “failed to report that their close ‘friends,’ Dumocrats Obama and Biden, spent over 100 Million Dollars on the Reflecting Pool, and it never worked.”
• Trump said he was preparing lawsuits against the broadcaster for “false reporting.”
• The latest action against ABC comes as the broadcaster faces two investigations from the Federal Communications Commission

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue broadcaster ABC for its reporting on the cost of repairing damage sustained by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.

The U.S. president said the network had not reported costs incurred by previous administrations in maintaining the landmark.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that ABC “failed to report that their close ‘friends,’ Dumocrats Obama and Biden, spent over 100 Million Dollars on the Reflecting Pool, and it never worked.”