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.
I agree — it is like pulling “loose” rocks from the cliffs of Bryce or Zion canyon and smashing them into the rest of the cliff. Defacing monuments is wrong and if there is evidence this joker was tearing up pieces of the liner “because Trump ….. waaaaa” he should be prosecuted.
Thank you for sharing a great example!
Yes, no need to pull up loose spots.
💯
Potential black eye for Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the installation company, what say you, Atlantic?
$14.7 million no-bid contract https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_140P2026C0028_1443_-NONE-_-NONE-
The Democrats smell blood in the water and are circling https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-06-24garciatoatlanticindustrialcoatingsllc.pdf
Yup
Awarding a “No Bid Contract” was a bad decision.
Now that it appears the installation was flawed, it opens up the entire project to criticism for mismanagement.
I have yet to see this CO’s executive interviewed.
Judge Jennine was the wrong person to begin with. She needs to be sacked now.
I’ve seen this movie before.
Respectfully disagree
Respectfully please tell us why you disagree.
Because of the CTH motto, “the truth has no agenda.”
Excellent response.
IMO JP isn’t being disloyal or attacking DJT over this issue.
She’s simply relaying her findings and letting that info take the investigation to the appropriate conclusion, WHATEVER that may be.
Being a Judge is much different than being a prosecutor. Try getting a conviction on this in DC. Not going to happen!
But Hearne was indicted by a grand jury. And it is not the success or failure of the act of vandalism but the attempt that is the crime. She should have allowed this to go to trial. If nothing else she could have dropped the felony charge and left it as a misdemeanor.
Because she could not get a conviction.
On X PDJT posts a clip of Jessie Waters reporting on this issue. He had excellent aerial video of multiple people apparently doing some very questionable stuff to the pool. Look at the post. I’m not on X and can’t post the link.
Jessie was convinced hose 2 people were tampering in some way.
Maybe PT and JP are both right. Maybe those 2 people tampered with the pool lining but neither of those people were Hearn? (one was a female).
Me too. It’s called Nobody Is Ever Held Accountable
It’s called having evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
JP isn’t a Xiden doj prosecutor. She has to actually prove a case.
No it’s called 2 Tiered Justice. If you think the lack of evidence is why charges are never brought for those on the left then you haven’t been paying attention. Follow the bouncing ball.
CORRECT 100%. Anyone who believes that a conservative doing the exact same thing would NOT be brought up on charges by a Leftist Administration is either naive or a troll.
Leftists use the full power of government to go after their enemies – even if their enemies are innocent. You may win in court, but you will be broke and they will be laughing.
It is time that we did the same thing to them. Maybe when they experience it (Leftists seem to need to experience things to understand them), then maybe, just maybe, a small light will go on in their heads.
Oh no, not another wrong hire.
Care to make your case, sir?
Or…did someone get to her with threats? Blackmail? Or was she told by an operative that the case would be thrown out as soon as it “hit the docket”, so to speak. This case would have been heard in the supreme Den of Corruption.
I would have like to see Norm Eisen in action but…I am sure he will show up in yet another case in DC soon.
Where was Todd Blanche in all of this? Does she not report to him?
Fox News’ afternoon show “The Five” may soon change it’s name to “The Six”!
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.
Of course. Jewish Lawfare strikes again.
That is true.
That does not explain why her statement in dropping the charges fires shots at the DoJ.
She could have just as easily dropped the charges and only state; New Evidence.
Something rotten in Denmark. Both could be true, certain vandalism and an installation error. Sounds like they need a couple of pumps in the swamp water in Addition to coating etc.
And the President, because if his ambitious schedule… did she point at her chain of command?
When is it worth a try?
Under-promise and over deliver. She should have said less in the beginning to allow prove the case without letting exuberance precede commitment to task.
If it is apparent that the defense is going to produce documents that show the contractor did a poor job and that may be the cause of the problems, and that you will probably lose the case in the liberal DC court, you drop the charges against the defendant and pursue the contractor poor workmanship. Its the only winning route. (btw, the “pe” means professional engineer and yes, I do testify about such things).
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.
He blasted her like he blasts everyone that he’s not pleased with.
It’s not her job to tell the President everything she’s doing on all her cases… she can’t report to him all day long about every case she’s hearing.
Jeannine Pirro is a FORMER judge who is now a US Attorney, which is a prosecutor job. She doesn’t “hear” cases as a judge. I don’t know if her role is management and PR, or if she actually made the presentation to the Grand Jury in this case as a prosecutor.
In this particular case, because of how voicetrous President Trump was about the damage, she should have known that informing President Trump was imperative.
B s, a big media statement as courtesy could be mentioned before. She is covering her b u t t. Look at her prior record as prosecutor …
Informing is Todd Blanche’s job. Attorney Pirro got late information (reports about faulty installation) from the Dept of the Interior. I know it may pain some to read an MS NOW article but it’s same story reported by Fox. Read the article. From a prosecutorial standpoint she didn’t have much to go on. President Trump can yell & throw papers, but that’s sometimes what happens with a case.
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.
more like murder and robbery at the same house by two different people
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.
And is subject to the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche who is the one to inform the White House.
Ayayay THANK you
She is not the “judge.” She is US attorney for DC, who can relay/communicate with plaintiff on efforts and intentions.
NO, what are you all thinking.
This is not how COURTS work.
Good Grief.
Good grief, back at you.
Pirro is the DC US Attorney who works for the President under the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
She could have told someone to tell someone to let Blanche know who could have told someone else who told the President.
Does that help?
I think that expectation is ridiculous and unrealistic.
Exactly. You said it better than I did!
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”.
Norm Eisen has plenty of underminers in the DOJ. He may have re-created documents that “prove’ what the Communists want to prove.
Pirro is s FORMER judge who is now a US Attorney. Her only “ruling” on a case is to decide whether or not to prosecute it, based on the evidence
President Trump NEVER has to keep quiet
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???
There is not enough information here to draw any conclusions.
I have many questions.
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.
And there there is THAT major point, yes.
They needed ‘Pool Shock” by the trailer load.
Yep, blame Obama for that, he switched from using treated water to pumping straight out of the Potomac River in 2012
Grass damage would be a separate incident of vandalism. Dumping algae in the pool might also be vandalism.
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.
The President did not lose his right to free speech when he was sworn in. He can state his opinion in any manner he chooses.
His public image is his concern but it isn’t yours.
Thanks for sharing your opinion of the manner in which the POTUS shared his opinion.
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?
I agree.
Some photographic evidence, both of the cuts and of the improper installation or product would go a very long way to helping us, the owners, understand exactly what is going on.
Can you explain to me how you would make ” 200′ long razor cuts”? I wondered how one would accomplish this; it seemed more likely to me to be a separation or split in the applied blue stuff. In photos of the work in progress, the workers applied long strips of coating to which perhaps the next strip didn’t adhere properly?
Tape a box knife with a new blade to a pole and away you go.
Easy peasy.
Rudy, Mike Lindell, Pirro, and many more.
They all have something in common.
Yes, they are MAGA…. which, I think, you are not.
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?
You bet it is. Underminers are everywhere undoing the good and making headlines bad.
“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’.
Was this man charged with damaging the grass?
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.
While Pirro is appointed by the President, she works for the DoJ via the Executive Office for US Attorneys and the Deputy AG in main justice. Main Justice should be working with the White House not individual US Attorneys though I suppose this would be considered a high profile case. But Blanche is the one you should be angry at.
I’m not right or wrong about anything in this thread, my first post stated I’m confused … Just confused. As people were saying things in thread , they suggested possible ways to look at this, … I know nothing. I was confused, lots of us are confused. Trump saw some of the stuff the Leftists were doing around the pool, there were hopefully cops there, and video camera’s. Trump can’t be every place, … Trump tried to get the “right” people for the jobs he gives to others. Lots of stuff is out of my control and Trump’s control.
Many of us think the Leftists are trying to set up Trump, to put egg on his face. And probably some “operations” or “ops” … were triggered, to disrupt the July 4th 2026 (250 year event).
All I know is what Sundance posted.
Over the next fews days more info will come out. We are just getting the “flash news” and most of us realize more details will come out later, but the MSM tries to spin everything to “hurt Trump’s” image.
Trump has had to deal with this D.C. Swamp crap for years. Lots of Dumb-o-crats to deal with.
Sometimes a president needs to vent! I guess for some people they want our president to die from the stress of having good intentions attacked by leftist vandals who are out to do violence.. Leftist fools can’t even let a reflecting pool and the grass around it exist. That is hatred and insanity at a new level.
President Trump has every right to disagree and to let us know what he thinks and believes.
You think this garbage isn’t going to happen with the next Republican president?
Don’t grab the rope!! They throw the rope out and when we grab it and they’ve got us.
Our complaints about what POTUS did or should have done is a gift and reward to those evil monsters.!
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.
“If I put a foreman on a job I don’t expect him to bug me asking how he should do his job.” either way, it’s on you…you chose the wrong foreman or you didn’t make it clear as to authority and responsibility.
Thanks for pointing out the unsaid obvious.
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 don’t want a doj that treats anyone the way the Obumbler-Xiden doj treated people.
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.
I seriously doubt it was vinyl.
I was in the building trades for over 35 years and have seen many types of coatings and liners.
See Liber8tor
August 1, 2026 4:54 pm
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 😉
It was drained, cleaned and pressure washed. It was not the contractor but sabotage by the Communists in the Government who have never done any real work. The make a living off prople like the contractor who work and take pride in their work.
A graffiti reading “86 47” was spray-painted in the empty Lincoln Memorial Pool on Friday, May 1, 2026, following the indictment of former FBI director James Comey over an image on social media that showed seashells laid out to spell “8647.” Many believe that “86 47” denotes murdering President Donald Trump, though those critical of the current administration have disputed the claim. The U.S. Park Police are currently investigating the vandalism.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lincoln-memorial-pool-reportedly-hit-131017386.html
“Around 7:20 a.m. this morning, the U.S. Park Police was notified by the National Park Service of approximately 15-by-30-foot ‘8647’ graffiti spray-painted in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” a spokesperson for the agency told the Washington Examiner.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4551338/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-8647/
It doesn’t look like the lining contractor thoroughly prepared the parts of the bottom that got tagged with “8647” graffiti while the pool was drained. They just pained around it, then pained right over it.
The contractor began spraying-on the liner the same day the graffiti was discovered.
Workers spray blue lining on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Photo by Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)
he graffiti on the tarp over the reflection pool has been covered up. (Photo by Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)
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?
Two phrases the prosecution hate to hear, ‘is it possible that’, and,’ is it reasonable to suggest’, because of their inferences. This case raises both.
It’s hard to believe that there are no security cameras in that area that would have shown the vandalism taking place.
Eisen-Gruber strikes again.
I’ve read the whole thread and I have more questions than answers. We don’t have nearly enough information here to arrive at the right answers.
It seems like Judge Pirro ruled upon the information put in front of her but I question how accurate and complete it all is and was.
She’s only as informed as what the investigation puts in front of her.
She’d have to be knowledgeable about how the entire project was designed supposed to be installed to then know if it there was a problem or not with the installation.
She’s a Judge, not an architect or a construction project manager- she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know in order to then ask the right questions and this is also likely the case for whoever did the investigation.
We live in a country now where construction companies are forced to use a whole lot labor that is not very good for all sorts of reasons from drug use making people not good to foreign labor and language issues, it’s a constant battle trying to find good help. There was a ton of labor on this project and potential for mistakes everywhere.. every inch of that liner where there is an adhered seam is a place for something to go wrong. We also have the danger of materials failure and that does happen too.
So projects can and do go sideways.. they pretty much always do in fact.
Having said this, whenever we had critically important projects like this reflecting pool project, your better project supervisors had many eyes there on the job to make sure this kind of crap didn’t happen- but then there aren’t enough of those either and they cost a lot of money which then blows the budget.
Clearly there was installation issues but get this point: If this pool liner was this easy to vandalize, then whoever made the choice to use this method, use that material, that was a critically wrong decision.
I see lawsuits coming because Donald Trump the construction man certainly knows all this.
As for the Judge, it seems like we need far more information about the case before we can understand where this all went wrong..
One thing is clear here: MANY things have gone wrong right across the board on the entire situation.
If this pool liner was this easy to vandalize, then whoever made the choice to use this method, use that material, that was a critically wrong decision.
Do you have a link to the installation procedure because I’d love to it.
It’s a valid point. I for one would like to know how durable this liner material was? How thick? What was it made of?
Maybe there are better alternatives but the time frame was short which may have been an error in judgement.
Then there are the other aspects of this project like the size of the pool, the heat factor and the water treatment for algae.
I hope they can come to a suitable solution.
Open the picture and zoom in.
Looks like rubber roofing (EPDM?) with a color coat.
One seam down the middle?
For what this project cost, I’d hope it would last for decades- I don’t think that is a lot to ask for something this expensive. It wound up lasting for weeks.
Ok the reflecting pool maybe, but 86 47 in the grass??? Did the contractors do that too?
They did nothing wrong. It was probably sabotage at night when normal people sleep and Antifa is prowling about looking for things to destroy.
The standards of workmanship have gone down a lot. Someone sent me pictures from a big commercial construction project, every single door was framed in 3 inches too short. Every rough opening was 3 inches too short. What kind of framer doesn’t know how tall a door is?
How many of those contractors have a majority of their labour force comprised of illegal aliens?
Framers from another country where people are shorter? Or like those CDL license holders, they cannot read or write even in their own language?
There are standards for framing that have been established for decades.
LOL!
The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool.
The Reflecting Pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial and dates back to 1922.
POTUS cares deeply about protecting our sacred national monuments and his leadership has led the restoration of our Nation’s Capital by Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Again.
Intentional damage done to the Reflecting Pool is no different than defacing any one of our other national monuments.
We won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.
WTH?
The Deep State is deep and strong.
Maybe Jeanine Pirro should give David Hearn an award for investigating and producing evidence that the installation of the reflecting pool was botched. ??? Seriously, it seems to be somewhat of a pattern that some of the women that President Trump appoints are disappointing.
Who within the DOJ decided the damage was done by a faulty contractor I would like to know.
Revitalizing the Reflecting Pool and making it beautiful was very important to President Trump, and many Americans myself included. Judge Jeanine must know, and have known that.
Out of respect for President Trump, Judge Jeanine should have given him a heads up before dropping the vandalism charges against David Hearn.
I don’t believe this. I know there is a lot of Trump hate out there, but I just can’t imagine that a contractor would permit his workers to do such shoddy work on a historical landmark such as the reflection pool. This could put the company out of business; no one would want to hire them to do a backyard pool. I think that Jeannine Pirro is using the contractor as a scapegoat. Can’t get enough financial restitution from a former Olympian but you can from the contractor’s insurance company. I am getting insurance fraud vibes.
IMHO POTUS is right and ms Piro is all hat. Never been impressed with her record before this appt., she was big talker with a show … however her legal finesse leave much to the ether. Furthermore, before the charges filed, thought she was a little out of left field Uber declarative before judicious review.
The guy was literally in the water cutting pieces out if the liner…..
Seriously, I’m getting sick of leftist on camera breaking the law, caught in the act, and getting off scott free.
Meanwhile people literally let into the Capitol have had their lives ruined.
We have lefty judges ignoring SCOTUS rulings….no one is ever held accountable.
To all readers of this thread and Sundance … I am self serving a double helping Grackle (A Texas Size Crow) for my comments above mistakingly forgetting that Jeannie Pirro had transitioned to being an Attorney working for the President in the District of Colombia.
Can’t erase of modify my comments but I can apologize and recognize my error.
She and her office are 100% responsible for not doing President Trump the courtesy of providing a warning as well as briefing as to why they are dropping charges before moving to the courts, to file the motion.
One thing I am certain is my employer trashed me like that I’d be gone as soon as I packed my stuff.
A D.C. grand jury found a felony subpoena? That information alone tells you there was enough evidence. Pigs are flying.
According to reports, the grand jury was presented falsehoods. That is a felony in itself and might lead toward disbarment of those who were in the decision chain.
Why does this occupy even a minute of time? There are so many much more important issues. Ballrooms and pools are so low on the list. Could be the last few months. At best the last few years.
Sundance has a keen eye on all things that matter, and if he’s posting it, its important.
Keeping track of what our government is doing and NOT doing is an overwhelming job.
Especially when it comes to people being held accountable.
My reflection on the reflecting pool is did the contractor botch the job? What was the job?
What was suppose to be done?
Etc.
What is the current status of the seament pond as jethro would say?
The judiciary is a separate branch of the government and in spite of leftist accusations that our President directs the actions of the judiciary, this is a good example that he does not. And he should not.
Reasonable doubt is not a defense or standard of proof in civil cases.
The beyond a reasonable doubt standard is exclusively used in criminal cases to protect the accused, requiring the prosecution to prove guilt to such a degree that no reasonable uncertainty remains.
In civil cases, the standard of proof is significantly lower, typically requiring a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not) or, in some instances, clear and convincing evidence.
Because civil disputes usually involve financial damages or private rights rather than the loss of liberty, the legal system tolerates greater uncertainty and does not apply the reasonable doubt standard.
when one is the “boss” (JP) one must not just assume the underling findings are correct
At what point in time was it discovered that the contactor botched the installation? Was there documentation/evidence of some kind by the contractor that showed they messed up and continued with the installation anyway? Was there a 3rd party inspection during installation that discovered a flawed process, but said nothing at the time? How did David Hearn discover that he could pull up the lining? Was it obviously already loose and easy to pull more of it loose? Wouldn’t this alone be indicative of poor installation as well as show he was vandalizing the pool?