{"id":3900,"date":"2026-07-20T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:44:16","slug":"trump-goons-botch-own-case-against-reflecting-pool-vandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goons Botch Own Case Against Reflecting Pool \u2018Vandal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The Trump administration has sunk its own case against the only person charged with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3898\">James Carville Offers Shocking Defense of Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump continues to rage at alleged \u201cvandals\u201d after his $16 million pool renovations turned into a slimy and expensive embarrassment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vandals, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired,\u201d the 80-year-old president fumed on Truth Social on Friday. \u201cWhat kind of animals would do such a thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThe Scum in Court will hopefully be prosecuted to the MAX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But former Olympian David Hearn, the only person to be charged so far, says the Trump administration\u2019s own blunders have rendered the case against him dead in the water. <\/p>\n<p>In a motion to dismiss the federal indictment against Hearn, 67, his attorneys argued that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro let the key evidence in the case\u2014the lining of the pool Hearn is accused of damaging\u2014slip away. <\/p>\n<p>The government accused Hearn of \u201cforcefully and violently\u201d ripping two square feet of the pool\u2019s new blue coating on June 19, but the three-time Olympic canoeist has pleaded not guilty to the felony destruction of property charge, saying he was simply touching already peeling material. <\/p>\n<p>Hearn\u2019s attorneys said that despite their express request for federal prosecutors to preserve the evidence, the pool has been drained repeatedly, and large portions of the liner are now gone. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution simply does not permit the government to charge a man with destroying an object, retain exclusive custody of that object, and then drain, disturb, and alter the object before the defense may examine it, despite a written demand for its preservation,\u201d they said in their motion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s failure to preserve this evidence, in the face of an express demand no less, has destroyed Mr. Hearn\u2019s ability to collect evidence material to his defense on multiple elements of the charged offense. Dismissal is the only appropriate remedy in view of the government\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3896\">MAGA Battle Erupts as Graham\u2019s Sister Fights Off GOP Rivals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for D.C. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, the White House told the Daily Beast, \u201cRefer you to the Judge\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a sign of the case\u2019s weakness, D.C. Superior Court Judge Carmen McLean last week denied Pirro\u2019s request to bar Hearn from returning to the pool.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn faces up to 10 years in prison. His lawyer has accused the Trump administration of trying to use his client as a scapegoat for its botched renovation project.<\/p>\n<p>Though Trump has repeatedly claimed vandals carved a massive gash into the Reflecting Pool, no such damage was visible when it was fully drained last week.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the empty pool bed\u2014which Trump had demanded be painted a shade he called \u201cAmerican Flag Blue\u201d before it turned a bright shade of green and was plagued by algae blooms\u2014showed peeling paint in multiple places and was no longer blue.<\/p>\n<p>Pirro, 75, held a press conference about the case against Hearn on July 2. Asked how prosecutors would prove the pool wasn\u2019t already damaged before Hearn arrived, Pirro replied: \u201cCome to the trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3894\">CNN Data Guru\u2019s Dire Midterm Warning for Democrats<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has sunk its own case against the only person charged with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 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