{"id":4230,"date":"2026-08-01T05:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:06:12","slug":"critics-maul-trump-after-doj-drops-its-reflecting-pool-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"Critics maul Trump after DOJ drops its Reflecting Pool prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump administration dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, late Friday after admitting their allegations against David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn \u201cdon\u2019t hold water,\u201d as NBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4228\">Trump\u2019s final rope is \u2018snapping strand by strand\u2019: analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia, which is headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials obtained information that undermined \u201cthe evidentiary basis for the indictment\u201d against Hearn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors said that after the indictment, the Interior Department \u2018provided 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,\u2019\u201d NBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Critics on social media could not wait to pounce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere does Dave Hearn (smeared as a vandal) go to get his reputation back?\u201d demanded Vanity Fair writer Paul Farhi on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere it is &#8230; the Reflecting Pool accusations were just Trump lies,\u201d wailed on heckler on X soon after the report went live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefense should move to sanction the DOJ attorneys who brought this case,\u201d railed another. \u201cProsecutorial misconduct and an abuse of the grand jury process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4226\">Jennings compares latest DOJ gaffe to \u2018monkey having intimate relations with a football\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One reporter described the 20-page Friday court filing as throwing \u201cthe Trump Admin&#8217;s Dept of Interior under the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other were too busy mocking the failed prosecution too hard to comment: \u201clol&#8230;the gang that can&#8217;t shoot straight losing another one,\u201d said one critic on X.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department filing said that based on its review of evidence, \u201cit is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reports a spokesperson for Pirro said the filing \u201cspoke for itself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4224\">CNN anchor stomps GOP lawmaker\u2019s denial cold \u2014 to his face<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, late Friday after admitting their allegations against David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn \u201cdon\u2019t hold water,\u201d as NBC reported.In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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