{"id":4702,"date":"2026-08-01T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:09:03","slug":"trumps-reflecting-pool-lies-exposed-in-humiliating-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Lies Exposed in Humiliating Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The \u201cradical vandals\u201d President Donald Trump blamed for ruining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have turned out not to be the culprits after all. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4700\">NFL Star Who Played in the First-Ever Super Bowl Dies at 85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president repeatedly accused unknown \u201cthugs\u201d of slicing into the landmark after its multimillion-dollar renovation, but his own Justice Department now says the damage was caused by contractor error. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The admission came in a filing Friday seeking to dismiss charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, whom Trump\u2019s prosecutors had accused of damaging the pool. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The office of Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged that the sheets of floating paint that appeared after the renovation were caused by a \u201cflawed installation by the contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filing also blamed the Department of the Interior for \u201cfailing to fully and accurately provide\u201d that information to Pirro\u2019s prosecutors before they charged Hearn with property destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The filing recounted that Justice Department officials \u201cfirst became aware\u201d of information revealing that the damage was the \u201cresult of a botched installation and not vandalism\u201d after reviewing additional documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad [the Interior Department] been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment\u201d against Hearn, the filing said.<\/p>\n<p>An angry Trump made repeated claims about vandals cutting a slit of up to 350 feet into the Reflecting Pool (which he later amended to 300yards<i>, <\/i>or 900 feet, of damage)\u2014saying at various times the unknown culprits used a knife, a box cutter, and a razor. He described the purported wrongdoers as \u201csick\u201d and \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor blamed for the problems, was awarded a no-bid contract for the renovation after Trump said he had used the company before for work at one of his golf resorts. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4698\">Murdered Mom-of-6\u2019s Father Delivers Stunning Admission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump initially estimated the project\u2014to transform the water to \u201cAmerican Flag Blue\u201d\u2014would cost no more than $1.8 million. The final bill has since soared past $14 million and is still climbing, while the pool\u2019s once-blue bottom has returned to gray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost immediately after\u201d the work on the pool was completed, peeling paint \u201cwas observed along the pool perimeter,\u201d according to the filing by Pirro\u2019s office. A report by a National Park Service engineer in early June concluded that the problem was due to contractor error via paint \u201coverspray,\u201d according to the document.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn pleaded not guilty after he was charged with destruction of property and accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the pool. He said he simply touched a sheet of paint floating in the water.<\/p>\n<p>After the Reflecting Pool was drained to fix the damage, it was clear there were no slice marks that the president claimed existed. But there were multiple tire-track impressions left from Trump\u2019s motorcade when he arranged for it to drive down the empty waterway to inspect it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump hasn\u2019t retracted his attacks on \u201cvandals,\u201d nor has he reacted to Friday\u2019s court filing. The White House did not immediately return the Daily Beast\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Pirro\u2019s office has said the filing \u201cspeaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearn\u2019s lawyers said Pirro never had a case and that the general threat to justice continues in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration\u2019s case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought,\u201d said Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders Fund, Mary Dohrmann of the Washington Litigation Group, and Steve Levin of Steptoe LLP. \u201cIts dismissal does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4696\">Brittney Griner Files for Divorce From Wife Who Fought for Her Russia Release<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cradical vandals\u201d President Donald Trump blamed for ruining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have turned out not to be the culprits after all. Read more NFL Star Who Played in the First-Ever Super Bowl Dies at 85 The president repeatedly accused unknown \u201cthugs\u201d of slicing into the landmark after its multimillion-dollar renovation, but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Lies Exposed in Humiliating Admission - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4702\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Lies Exposed in Humiliating Admission - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The \u201cradical vandals\u201d President Donald Trump blamed for ruining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have turned out not to be the culprits after all. 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