“The Justice Department moved to dismiss the criminal case against Olympian David Hearn. Prosecutors said new evidence showed the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by a faulty installation, not Hearn.”
So, the Reflecting Pool accusations against the Olympian brought by Trump’s DoJ were all Trumpian lies. Trump and his lackeys were willing to put an innocent American in prison to cover up Trump’s gross incompetence and lies. The no- bid, $14 million contract for painting the surface of the Reflecting Pool was done by a Trump pal who is a member of his Mar-a-Largo Club. This stinks of corruption.
That’s where we are in Trump’s disastrous 2nd term. Where is the righteous outrage on this newest insult to our justice system by the convicted felon president
We’ve seen innocent Americans and others gunned down and killed on our streets by Trump’s ICE goons, and now we know Trump was willing to put an innocent American in prison for up to 10 years to cover up his gross incompetence and lies.
The stench of Trump will follow MAGA forever.
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office wrote in a new court filing Friday:
“It was not until after the return of the indictment [of Hearn], that the [Department of Interior] provided additional documents to the [US Attorney’s Office in DC] indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.” —McGill News
You mean the Trump Admin themselves are to blame for hiring a friend of Trump's, through a no bid contract to fix something that was not broken?
ReplyDeleteHow is this possible?
And then, rather than just admit a mistake, the Trump Admin wrongly indicted an innocent man, costing him untold financial and personal damage?
And the Admin, through the Dept of Interior, knew all of this from the beginning?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya...
the reasonable doubt hurdle couldn't be overcome. That doesn't mean he didn't sabotage the pool.
ReplyDeleteNo. It means the corrupt Trump administration tried to frame an innocent American to cover up Trump’s incompetence, corruption, and stupidity. You know this.
DeleteJoe Con's inane blather doesn't mean HE didn't sabotage the pool.
DeleteIt would fit the pattern of his fascist projection, though.
No, they caught a guilty idiot but couldn't convict him.
Deletebtw - Why do you care, he was likely Blue MAGA.
DeleteClearly, your comments amount to nothing more than MAGA slop, because there isn’t any evidence to back your slop up.
DeleteYour inanity even failed to be amusing.
Pretty well sums up the whole administration. Deny incompetence and
ReplyDeleteblame some passerby.
“In an extraordinary motion filed Friday evening, the U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro, said she was seeking to dismiss a felony charge against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of pulling up a piece of the pool’s lining two feet square.
DeleteIn doing so, Ms. Pirro — a longtime ally of President Trump’s — directly contradicted the president’s repeated claim that the Reflecting Pool’s peeling liner was caused by people slashing its coating with knives. Instead, she said, “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.”
Earlier this month, Ms. Pirro herself had echoed the president’s claims, calling a news conference to announce Mr. Hearn’s indictment on July 2. She said that she had “tremendous evidence” that Mr. Hearn had committed a felony, and noted that he faced up to 10 years in prison.”—NYTimes
The reflecting pool debacle is a reflection of the MO of conservatism and MAGA.
ReplyDeletePromise, fail, lie, accuse, blame, and punish anyone they hate.
-FJ... Reasonable doubt hurdle? The government, apart from an idiot president, all agrees. It was shoddy workmanship, by the company Trump hired, friends of his, who had no experience doing this. Then, the idiot president ordered his multi-ton motorcade to drive on it before the bad installation cured.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a reasonable doubt hurdle -FJ and Pirro never said that. She said specifically "the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.”
Now I'm not like you. I believe we should hold people to account for their exact words, not their opinions, or interpretations of those words.
Your "reasonable doubt" BS is just that... BS. because you are functionally unable or unwilling to accept, in this case, that the president is an idiot, wrong and once again, lying.
Here are the president's words today on the subject... “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool... I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned in giant letters on it, and other elements of the surrounding area. There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
ReplyDeleteAs always, our POTUS is up on his facts.
“Pirro’s claim that she and her office were previously duped by Interior is nonsense,” Hearn’s lawyer added. “Starting immediately after the arraignment, our motions repeatedly proved that the administration was to blame, not Davey.”
ReplyDeleteTim Lauer, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, declined to comment. “The filing speaks for itself,” he wrote in an email.
The about-face also underscored a recurrent pattern that has diminished the Justice Department’s once-sterling standing with federal judges and juries — the rush by Trump- appointed U.S. attorneys across the country to take quick action against those accused by the president of transgressions, even petty ones.
It is now much more common for grand juries around the country, particularly in Washington, to reject indictments brought by the department. In years past, this almost never happened.”
Staggering incompetence and corruption.
So... in early July on Fox News, both US Atty. Jeanne Pirro and Sec of Interior Doug Burgum stated unequivocally that the damage done to the liner of the reflecting pool was done by vandals using box cutters. They also both stated they had direct evidence, including both photos and videos.
ReplyDeleteWe now know both of them were lying to the American public.
There never was any evidence of the crime they allege, they never had the evidence they said they had, there never were any photos or videos.
This is the Trump Admin and its supporters like -FJ. They are either liars, or defenders of liars. Because Pirro has now admitted she had no evidence.
Burgum, who Pirro threw under the bus, has not yet made a statement.
Both of them should be impeached and removed from office for aiding a malicious prosecution and lying to the American ppl. Pirro should then be disbarred for actions to defraud the courts.
Then they should be made to answer directly for their actions and statements, explaining why the indictment was sought with no evidence, who demanded the prosecution and asked whether President Trump lied again to the American ppl today when he said Pirro is 100% wrong.
All true. But, nothing will happen. Americans elected a known pathological liar to the presidency twice Why in hell would it suprize any thinking person that the lying president would staff his regime with liars?
DeleteAmerica has rapidly devolved into a Banana Republic where the majority party in congress simply rubber stamps whatever their lying Fuhrer directs them to do..
Here's how one Senior GOP Congressional staffer put the problem with the party, which is continually shooting itself in the foot, making unforced errors...
ReplyDelete“Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence... We [The GOP] have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
It's incompetent idiocy that drives leaders and US Attys to not be honest with the head of their party. Which leads to stupid indictments like the one we say against the former US Olympian.