Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case

Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case from the never-wrong-prez-just-dying-to-be-wrong-again dept This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump’s cronies/donors — who were paid millions to do a job they’d never done before — failed to bring the Lincoln Reflecting Pool up to spec by July 4th, preventing Trump from taking sole credit for everyone else’s hard work while turning the nation’s 250th birthday into a celebration of himself. When the “American flag blue” undercoating began floating to the surface and the rest of the pool turned green due to the completely expected explosion in algae growth, Trump decided it would be better to arrest people for “vandalism” than throw his financial supporters under the bus. Former Olympian David Hearn was the big catch. Trump, Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum, and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro all claimed they had tons of evidence to support felony vandalism charges against their star defendant. Another handful of people were arrested and hit with misdemeanor charges, solely for the purpose of propping up Trump’s “it was vandals!” lies. But the whole thing fell apart when the cases moved forward. In Hearn’s case, a government witness testified the damage was due to faulty repair work by the contractors, rather than anything Hearn or anyone else had done to the pool. This undercut Trump’s 350-foot vandal attack narrative. It also tanked the case for US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who moved to dismiss the case due to being misled by the Interior Department, which apparently buried details of the faulty fix in hopes of making Trump’s revenge convictions a reality. Shortly after dropping the case, Pirro went toe-to-toe with Trump and DOI head Burgum, laying out all the evidence that contradicted Trump’s concocted narrative. Trump responded by attacking Pirro publicly in press comments and Truth Social posts. These attacks included some off-the-cuff remarks that seemed to have teleported in from a 1930s gangster b-movie script: “Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department,” he continued. “And I guess she choked. I don’t know what the hell happened.” […] Trump exclaimed minutes later that Pirro “folded like an umbrella.” I only bring this up again because Trump has clearly demonstrated that umbrellas are impossible to “fold.” Anyway, back to the point of the post: having a prosecution dismissed with prejudice means the government doesn’t get a second chance to do the wrong thing. The DOJ in general never does this because… who knows? Maybe some precedent will get handed down that revives a case. Maybe the cold case kids will find some sort of unidentifiable powder in the evidence locker. Or maybe the fucking president of the United States will just start ordering people to do the same thing again, only harder. White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to people familiar with the discussions, as President Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the case. […] After White House outreach, Justice Department officials are exploring whether another type of case—likely based on misdemeanor allegations—is even possible. And we’re right back where we started: with Trump trying to punish a US citizen because Trump embarrassed himself. This isn’t going to end well for Trump. I mean, I would hope. The presiding judge is still trying to find out why the DOJ didn’t dismiss the charges against Hearn with prejudice, given that it had admitted in court that there was no evidence to support them. And Hearn himself isn’t letting this go. If the DOJ decides to try again, this will vastly increase the chances the presiding judge will give his lawyers access to the grand jury materials he’s been requesting ever since the government’s witness testified (before the grand jury) that any so-called “vandalism” was actually just the side effects of a botched rush-job performed by under-qualified contractors better known for their loyalty to Trump than their specific set of skills. Trump is too stupid to recognize this will only result in more damning evidence of his self-serving hubris. Pirro knows this case is fucked so it’s highly unlikely she’ll be willing to do what Trump is demanding. And no one in the administration with the intelligence to recognize why this is a terrible idea is willing to do anything but appease the madman they’ve chosen to serve at the expense of their own credibility and future employment opportunities. Let’s hope this all goes as badly as it should for Trump. After all, he’s earned it. Filed Under: asshats, david hearn, doi, doj, donald trump, doug burgum, interior department, jeanine pirro, malicious prosecution, reflecting pool, trump administration Companies: atlantic industrial coatings, greenwater solutions Comments on “Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case” Look to your right and look to your left. Some of those people are Republicans, and this right here is who those monsters are. I know this one! Inb4 the dipshit claiming there are videos when even Mango Mussolini has admitted the videos don’t exist. If anyone wants to claim there’s video of the alleged vandalism, I invite them to link to the actual videos. Anyone who makes that claim and can’t back it up is free to go fuck themselves. Re: We’ve been through this. The videos go to school in Canada. You wouldn’t know them. Re: Re: Oh, they must know my girlfriend up there. A natural side effect of removing all the intelligent people around you for ass-sniffing lackeys, really. Pirro didn’t take the hint from the previous five attorney generals Trump has had working for him in (not even quite) six years in office. Re: (I may have quoted this passage here previously.) “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” The person who follows Pirro will be even stupider, perhaps sufficiently to be sanctioned by a judge. This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. Yeah man, cuz he clearly vandalized the pool. You shitlibs do this shit all the time. Someone just vandalized the WW2 memorial, of all things, mostly cuz they hate that Trump made it clean again. Re: You say this, but you have yet to show us the video evidence of this claim that you say exists. Show us the video, motherfucker. Lets not forget that the IPOTUS (I for Idiot (credit where credit’s due, ya know)) ran it over with his motorcade after the botch job. Wouldn’t that technically be double jeopardy? Re: No. Jeopardy attaches once a trial has started and a jury has been seated. A dismissal this early means jeopardy never attached and charges can be filed again so long as the dismissal was without prejudice. Video evidence Earlier today, I saw a video that shows who the real perpetrator is https://www.facebook.com/reel/2126378328256351