President Donald Trump is standing by his claim that vandals destroyed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — even after federal prosecutors he appointed told a court a botched installation ruined the pool’s lining.

While campaigning Saturday for Republican candidates in Perry, Georgia, Trump told supporters his administration cleaned all the graffiti off fountains and statues in Washington, D.C., repeating claims of vandalism in the nation’s capital that have been disproven by Trump-appointed federal prosecutors.

“Even the Reflecting Pool, you hear the fake news. So much fake news. It was built in 1922, and it hasn’t worked ever,” Trump claimed. “It’s the longest swimming pool in history. It goes all the way from Lincoln to George Washington, covers the whole territory and it always leaked.”

Trump continued: “And we had tremendous vandalism. And we had it pretty well, but we’re gonna undo it anyway because we had to the pipes.…