Posted on 07/31/2026 4:06:31 PM PDT by CaptainK
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is moving to dismiss charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, revealing in a Friday court filing that the damage was, in fact, “the result of flawed installation by the contractor.
Pirro’s office submitted the motion to dismiss after Hearn had pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of destruction of property for the alleged June 19 incident.
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I thought the pool was being vandalized on more than one occasion.
Sorry, but WHAT? The guy was RIPPING the lining out of the Pool. How are they going to blame this in the contractor? Can they get this guy on something else?
He was ripping the lining up on video. 🙄
Piro further said that the Department of the Interior initially provide only "bare bones" documentation and didn't give a fuller explanation until after the indictments were handed down.
Now I'm waiting for the Democrats to call for Burgham to resign or be fired, because they will look for any excuse to try to get rid of any Cabinet member that President Trump is close to.
-PJ
This is a smelly story.
“Jeanine Piro says that the coating was initially improperly installed and was already damaged “
So if my contractor installed my shag carpet improperly, and it was damaged because I spilled coffee on it, a thug kid in the neighborhood can burn the house down?
I like how you put that.
Well of course, nobody pays and nobody goes to jail these days. People commit crimes, get in front of the judges and get a free pass with no time to serve. Free to reoffend.
Move along people. We have a clown show judiciary.
This was doomed from the get-go.
Even without surveillance, the idea that someone or even a gang could somehow tear the lining FOR GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF A FOOTBALL FIELD is beyond far-fetched. Of course the lining was defective or defectively applied.
Since there were plenty of videos of the blue lining detached and floating, unless there was evidence of Hearn tearing the bottom of the pool (rather than just holding a patch of the lining) there was no way this case would go to a jury.
I blame Pirro for hyping this to the moon.
Elie Honag:
I think you could see the problems with this case right away. I wrote a piece for New York magazine, and I said on air that there were some reasons to doubt the validity of this case. I did not expect it to unravel so quickly. It’s a real embarrassment, first of all, for the United States’ Justice Department. Let’s remember — first, they arrest David Hearn, they charge him initially, by complaint, with a misdemeanor. Then, they upgrade it to a felony. They get a grand jury to indict him for that felony, and then Jeanine Pirro holds a press conference, where she’s pounding the podium and talking about what a serious crime this is and how justice will be done. And now, it turns out, they dismissed the case voluntarily.
And what DOJ is saying in the statement that we’ve received is that, “Well, we didn’t get the full information about the state of the pool from the Interior Department until after we charged.” But that’s no excuse at all. It’s your job as a prosecutor to get the relevant information first. You don’t charge first and then figure it out. You get the information first and then charge. So, it’s a true embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro. It’s a true embarrassment for DOJ, and they brought it on themselves.
Great job prosecutors. You are supposed to have all the relevant facts before indicting.
The clown show was the USDA, not the judiciary. A judge didn’t close this case. Jeanette Pirro did.
TMZ did a piece on this on June 23rd and said it likely started during construction.
TMZ right. Trump wrong.
https://www.tmz.com/2026/06/23/trump-reflecting-pool-vandalism-claim-challenged/
-PJ
People on this site and the Trump administration owe an apology to David Hearn. His reputation was damaged.
He’s won the lawsuit lottery🤑🙄.
“the result of flawed installation by the contractor.“
Will the contractor be prosecuted?
So why were these leftist a-holes screwing around in the reflecting pool in the first place?
Looks like they’ll get off on a technicality but they were clearly up to no good.
Why are you passionately defending a violent, Anti-American, insurrectionist maggot? I don’t know this creature’s name, nor do I care to know. This maggot is an avowed enemy of the US.
Shame on you.
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