On June 19, former U.S. Olympian David Hearn was arrested for “vandalizing” the D.C. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He admitted to touching a piece of the floating coating that had peeled off from the pool’s bottom. 

It is well documented that the flag blue lining had peeled off in large swaths and they were floating to the surface. It was already understood that the pool was (and is) leaking about 1 million gallons of water per day despite spending an estimated $16 million of taxpayer money.  

But rather than hold the no-bid contractor responsible, whom Donald Trump had hand-picked for the job and admit the obvious, Trump needed to scapegoat the botched refurbishment. 

Trump blamed “vandals” for damaging the pool. In reality, Trump’s project, for which he spent our money, was for folly. 

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro denounced Hearn on 2 July for his role in defacing the reflecting pool when she stated: 

“By Hearn’s own admission, on June 19, he reached down into the pool. Our evidence further shows that the National Park Service employees observed Hearn actually forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands.”  

Pirro added that the “unchecked vandalism” was “one of the most offensive........

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