WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, acknowledging their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn don’t hold water.
In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which is headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials obtained information that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against Hearn.
Prosecutors said that after the indictment, the Interior Department “provided additional documents to the USAO-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.”
DOJ said they “first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism” after reviewing more documents.
The Justice Department filing said that based on its review of evidence, “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”
A spokesperson for Pirro said the filing spoke for itself. Her office also moved to dismiss at least one of the other three misdemeanor cases that had been brought in connection with the Reflecting Pool.
LOL. “The argument doesn’t hold water.” Just like the reflecting pool.
That cunt Jeanine Pirro stood in front of microphones and accused this guy of vandalism and that it was over $1000. Trump got in front of the world and said someone vandalized it and now. Oops, golly, must have been the incompetent Maralago crony we hired. Well, guess we’ll just hire him again to fix it and keep arresting people for “vandalizing” it.
FFS.
Has Jeanine Pirro actually successfully prosecuted anyone since she was hired? The sandwich guy, now the pool guy, she doesn’t seem too great a prosecutor.
To be fair, she’s very drunk.
I’m mildly surprised at the number of alcoholics in the administration given that Trump himself is a teetotaler.
I don’t normally weigh the things they say very highly, but I think Susie Wiles was being very descriptive when she said he had an alcoholic’s personality.