The Trump administration’s attempt to prosecute alleged “vandalism” at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hit a snag Thursday.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro attempted to bar former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn from the pool after he pleaded not guilty to damaging it, only to be rebuffed by D.C. Superior Court Judge Carmen McLean.
“The government’s evidence is weak,” one of Hearn’s attorneys, Mary Dohrmann, argued in court.
Another of Hearn’s attorneys, Norm Eisen, said, “Every American should be alarmed about this prosecution. It is not a crime to touch the Reflecting Pool.”
Trump now insists that the pool is fine, even as he is draining it once again.
Pedophile insurrectionists should get what they deserve, until then it’s clown show o’clock
Well, if the pool is empty, it’s (at least mostly) algae free. Also, the blue coating is resting at the bottom of the pool, as was intended. Therefore, the pool is indeed fine, as Trump said.
Trump is fighting a two front war: one with Iran, the other with algae. He should sign a MoU with the algae until the Iran front is resolved.
This guy has devoted his life to representing this nation, and volunteers significant time to maintain and care for National Park Service Property. One day he rides his bike over to the RP to see what everyone is talking about, and reaches down to see what the big peel feels like, and the Goon Squad immediately scoops him up, and says “You are responsible for all of this!”
C’mon, be serious. This is beyond childish. Perhaps he ought to demand a full jury trial, and then do a ferocious forensic discovery on all the finances, communications, people, decisions, etc. related to this “renovation.” I think we’d find a LOT of crime.
At any rate, he absolutely should demand a jury trial. They’re going to have a very hard time finding 12 people willing to convict him on this bullshit.
These fucking jackasses. No one’s buying the vandalism claim so now it’s “fine” while they’re draining it.
The guy couldn’t tell the truth with a gun to his head…
Let’s find out!
i hear he’s conveniently in possession of a fine turkish-made one now, too.
missed by 0.02"
The child could lie to itself in a mirror
MAGA eats this shit up. So it’s not true that “no one” is buying it, alas.
They’ll believe anything tho. They could arrest a horse for being a terrorist and MAGA would support it.
If I were Trump I’d sell bottled algae-infused paint-peel “reflectivizing” Patriot Water to all my loyal supporters
There was a meme a bit ago about this. It was a fake ad showing his two older sons doing exactly this. They were charging by the size of the chunk.
That’s just about dumb enough to work!
Free the algae!
Drain it and restart the cycle by changing absolutely nothing, let’s have algae blooms on a rolling schedule baby!!
They’ll drain it and leave it empty, then claim that they always planned to make it that way to symbolize them “draining the swamp”.
Don’t give them any ideas lmao
This whole administration has been a clown show from the very beginning. But longer it goes on the worse it gets.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
When a clown sits on a throne, the clown does not become a king, the kingdom becomes a circus.
he is draining it once again
Is he doing to have his entire SS detail drive over it again, including his multi-ton reinforced limo?
So uh, how’s that ballroom doing?
The fuhrer suicide bunker? Its going to take a while to get all the gold leaf onto the ai generated architecture
Five bucks says it grows algae too, somehow.
Naw, but it’ll be filled asbestos lol
I genuinely hope it will be.
Asbestos is only harmful during construction and demolition so I don’t think it’ll have the effect you’re looking for :(
Construction delays. Having a hard time trying to figure out where to
hidehouse the underage girls.
Trump now insists that the pool is fine, even as he is draining it once again.
Dismiss
There are so many ways to spin, squash, or fix this. Instead, they just roll with Trump’s projected narcissistic delusion as if everyone can’t look out the window and observe the state of a 2000 foot long pool.
This is the very definition of insanity.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I’ve read the article twice now and am coming up blank. What was the “first big ask” that the Trump lawyers lost on?
I agree the case is bullshit. I was just hoping to read something about the judge pressing them on something and them failing to have an answer or something. The headline doesn’t seem to be explained in the article.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro attempted to bar former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn from the pool after he pleaded not guilty to damaging it, only to be rebuffed by D.C. Superior Court Judge Carmen McLean.
They attempted to bar him from access.
What a huge waste of the hard earned taxpayer’s money.
He should be ashamed of himself.
