Washington • President Donald Trump, who blasted the Antiquities Act in carving up two Utah national monuments nearly a year ago, used the authority under that law Friday to name a new monument in Kentucky days before the midterm election.
Trump, who shrank the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah by 2 million acres in December, employed the Antiquities Act to create the Camp Nelson National Monument in Kentucky, protecting the historic site that has local and congressional support but prompting critics to say the move was purely political.