The Dept of Justice in Washington, DC, dropped all charges against David Hearn for damage to the reflecting pool, saying instead that an investigation has led to information the installation was botched during construction.
Obviously, the leftists are taking a victory lap against previous accusations by President Trump that vandalism was the major cause of the algae return.
(VIA NBC) – […] 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.” (read more)
President Trump disagrees with the DOJ determination of cause.
“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.”
PLEASE COUGH UP THESE “DOCUMENTS”, SO WE CAN SEE FOR OURSELVES!
Trump is angry and is disputing this. He made a statement… Even if the liner was “loose” people still shouldn’t have pulled pieces up…
I agree completely. Dislodging loose pieces is still not acceptable behavior.
Judge Jennine was the wrong person to begin with. She needs to be sacked now.
I’ve seen this movie before.
Respectfully disagree
Me too. It’s called Nobody Is Ever Held Accountable
Oh no, not another wrong hire.
Some things are hard to understand. Jeanine P is very MAGA, I’m surpised of what she did. Seems like Trump didn’t understand why Jeanine Pirro did what she did.
Do you understand what Jeanine P did?
DOD drops charges?
The guy didn’t do anything wrong?
Or guy just was a little mad at Trump, … and Jeanine P felt she would lose the case in court?
(I know, my comments confuse me, so if you are confused with my comments. Blame the DOD? 🙂
Sometimes I think that appointees are carefully studied by the intelligence bureaucracies to find their soft or weak points, and via subtle communications with the appointees, the appointees are made aware of consequences of not adhering to The Plan.
As the title of Whitney Webb’s book states, we have One Government Under Blackmail.
She has a high bar … trying to convict a D in DC is extremely almost impossible. They are a protectred group in the district.
Not to mention David Hearns high profile lawyer, NORM EISEN.
It appears Pirro did not inform the president prior to the announcement and convince him her finding is accurate. Hence, he blasted her, creating a serious, unforced PR mistake.
President Trump seems to have been blindsided by this. JJ should have told him what she was going to rule…
President Trump is correct as usual.
Can we see the grand jury transcripts that indicted this dude?
So he wasn’t responsible for ‘damaging’ the pool but is he still responsible for ‘attempting’ to damage the pool??
Ya know…like there’s murder…and then there is attempted murder, there is robbery and then there is attempted robbery.
Before throwing JUDGE PIRRO under the bus … she is not the one who “discovers evidence” nor “determines how the evidence is linked to the charges” by the DoJ. JUDGE PIRRO rules on the application of the law.
What choice did she have?? We do not know how the “new evidence was presented” by DoJ. Did the DoJ present the new “as the sole cause of the damage”.
A full review of what “new evidence” the DoJ presented and how was the “new evidence” presented is needed.
This is a dismissal and NOT a verdict … so after a review new charges can be filed.
The President is flat wrong on this one with respect to Judge Pirro and needed to keep quiet until there is a review of what exactly happened. As it is now after his tirade .. refiling may not even an option thanks to his inability to show just a modicum of patience.
My opinion is that Pirro should have notified PDJT of the fact that they were going to drop the charges. Then she could have explained that there was (in her opinion) enough reasonable doubt in regards to the reflecting pool. Then he could have explained his position and come to an understanding.
Pirro’s office is the one that blindsided PDJT. He now has a right to put his opinion into the public airwaves.
Wrong .. Judge Pirro’s decision was made IN COURT and IN PUBLIC during the hearing.. She had no idea what DoJ was doing nor planning before the hearing.
Any DoJ meeting with Judge Pirro would have had to include the defendant’s lawyer, and that is the same as a public announcement before the President was informed, with respect to Judge Pirro.
It was on DoJ to notify President Trump that they were about to file for dismissal, before they met with the Judge and defendant’s Lawyer.
This is smear job vs Judge Pirro as all she can do is rule on the case as Presented by DoJ. There is no detail on how the case was presented … and it would be illegal and cause for dismissal for the Judge to meet with President if that was even possible.
Just so there is no misunderstanding here. Pirro as DC US attorney works for the President, not for the judicial branch.
thank you
It is an old saying that “salience is golden’, but Trump does not much believe in old sayings.
He seems to believe in “ready, fire, aim”.
Even IF the liner installation was faulty no way does that have anything to do with algae.
… even if the pool was damaged or liner was coming loose … if it was peeled and/or cut away by the defendant that is still damage caused by the defendant. Nobody at this point knows the content of the new evidence nor how the DoJ presented the new evidence … i.e. did they present the new evidence as mitigation or as sole cause of the damage?
Allot of unanswered questions and missing details here.
I thought the optics of charging that guy were wrong.
Sometimes you just roll with it and go on about your business.
The other misleading thing here, even with Sundances Article, is Context.
There needs to be a clear statement about the charges vs the guy who just had his charges dismissed and all the other vandalism (i.e. the “86-47”, the algae, any graffiti, et al).
If all the news stories were correct, this defendant was not part of anything except “damages” to the pool liner. This whole story is a mishmash of stories … were charges vs the other vandals dismissed???
Algae is going to grow in warm standing water.
They filled it from the Potomac where dems loserness resulted in the nations largest sewage spill.
The process is the punishment. Pirro is a lighweight. plus sprayed coating dont have 200′ long razor cuts. Sigh.
.. and who was punished by the process?? … not the defendant.
Judge Pirro was unjustly smeared.
The President looks like a child throwing a tantrum.
… and the DoJ Team that may have tanked the prosecution skates away.
plus sprayed coating dont have 200′ long razor cuts. Sigh.
Care to splain this to me in small words because it sounds like you have no hands on experience of which you speak?
Rudy, Mike Lindell, Pirro, and many more.
They all have something in common.
The dude’s lawyer is Norm Eisen…nuff said.
Is it possible that individuals within the Department of the Interior lied to President Trump about the damage and the cause of that damage?
“86 47?” To anyone in DC, of course that is “an incompetent contractor” and not “vandalism!”
The very thought of the Reflecting Pool looking beautiful again is an anathema to them – precisely because of TDS.
Why, we should rip the whole thing open and dump 150,000 gallons of water out of it every day. And, why not, directly pump DC sewage into it.
Given that this Pool is supposed to be a beautiful centerpiece of our Nation’s Capitol Mall, I’m quite sure that foreigners all around the world are “laughing their as&es off” at these childish antics.
Ladies, Gentlmen and LBQT+ of the jury, “he was just securing the basin for practicing olympic kayaking’.
I guess after reading your comments.
Maybe Jeanine Pirro should have called Trump about what she was going to do. Trump has been posting about the damage for a few weeks, … Trump really did try to give America a happy 4th of July 250 years party.
Some of these leftists did destruction to the Pool, and … no charges will be made. Trump heard about this from Leftist Media, and blew his top. I understand why Trump blew his top.
p.s. were Leftist DOJ lawyers given this case or MAGA Lawyers?
WRONG .. Judge Pirro only rules on the case as presented by DoJ.
She had no idea how the DoJ was going to present the new evidence.
Discussing her ruling with the President before it was released to the Public and Defendant would be illegal and grounds for dismissal of charges. The President is Technically the Government and Plaintiff in this case, any discussions would have had to include the doJ and Defendant’s Lawyers (i.e. the same as the Public disclosure that has everybody’s panties in a twist).
DoJ, as the representatives of the GOVERNMENT Plaintiff (including the President) had 100% of the responsibility to keep the President informed.
Once engaged in the case Judge Pirro is required to maintain 100% neutrality.
You either have the authority with the responsibility or you don’t.
If I put a foreman on a job I don’t expect him to bug me asking how he should do his job.
Lets hear from the contractor.
What is the exact scenario of installation botching?
Was the installing sabotaged?
Is it under warranty?
Was the installer given sabotage causing installation resrtictions?
Agreed… start there.
They can’t even close the deal on this.
It’s amazing to me how concerned the DOJ is for “the facts” when it’s the left or a leftist under the micoscope of investigation.
Flip the script and you know how the DOJ would respond…..guns blazing and asking questions after they have ruined lives and families. Disgusting and it doesn’t matter who “leads” them. The rot is from the center of the tree all the way to the bark.
I really think the pool should have been properly redone with a more permanent and durable inside surface rather than a cheap (by comparison) vinyl liner. It just seemed tacky to me from the start.
President Trump released this video of reflection pool being cut.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2083601409212023246/video/1
Judge Jeanine want$ to retain her acce$$ in Wa$hington DC. She got u$ed to all that televi$ion money. Ergo…
I also personally believe there is a very well hidden group of “those close to Trump” as is often quoted, that always had proverbial close-proximity explosive vests on, ready to detonate at the prescribed times in the quest to damage President Trump in some way.
Patterned shades of Jason Miller…
There are still Trillions at Stake.
There were several others charged re: the reflecting pool, so what is going to happen to their cases now?
Either there was a very large cut in the liner or there wasn’t. Either there was algae poured in or there wasn’t.
Given that we have yet to clean out all the deep state hacks in both the DOJ and the Interior Dept., it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a set up job by them.
And “86 47” on the lawn was what… the gardener overwatering certain areas?
Many pictures of the damaged liner revealed lengthy, jagged cuts/tears in the material. It seems highly unlikely that it was installed so asymmetrically.
You can’t paint an underwater surface without pressure cleaning, etching it and make sure it is completely dry. You may even need a primer sealer coat. This was clearly a screw up by the contractor and lack of supervision by washington D.C.
Don’t pay the contractor and demand a make good. Don’t make me come up there and do your job for you million-dollar jerks in Washington.
Thank you!
I was powering to write your info and you did it for me 😉
Trump had a shot at becoming the Zorro character who might have swooped in to administer swift certain justice. Death by hanging. Huge public events like the old days. 15 or 50 “congressmen” getting their necks stretched woulda slowed down the tyranny for a decade or two.
Turns out Trump might be more of a team player than he lets on. Or–maybe–Trump has pulled back the curtain far enough for all to see the corruption and nobody does nothing. Sane people don’t sit still for such lawlessness that is now the rule, not the exception. The carefully nurtured scofflaw attitude of the populous toward government allows the Evil Lawfare State to gain more and more power. Isn’t a people’s tolerance for such blatant criminality called demoralization?