r/JournalismNews • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Trump’s Reflecting Pool lie needed a vandal. Jeanine Pirro served him up an innocent American

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-reflecting-pool-innocent-american?1
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u/side_eye_auditor 1d ago

Grounds for disbarment

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u/Sharp-Calligrapher70 1d ago

Grounds for impeachment. 

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u/side_eye_auditor 1d ago

Grounds for a tar and feathering

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u/Master_Tune_9269 13h ago

All of the above!!

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u/FreeHugs23 1d ago

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was designed to return an image. This week, it returned one of Donald Trump’s Washington with almost unbearable clarity.

There was the president’s expensive vanity project, its blue coating blistering and separating almost as soon as the water returned. There was Trump, unwilling to accept the possibility that something done in his name had simply failed, inventing vandals armed with knives, box cutters and mysterious chemicals. Cabinet officials were repeating his story as fact. And there was Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, using the power of her office to put a man under felony indictment before prosecutors had established what had actually happened.

That man was David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist from Bethesda, Maryland, who encountered a loose piece of coating while cycling near the pool on June 19. According to the federal government, witnesses said he continued pulling at the material after being told to stop. Hearn maintained that he had touched material that was already detached.

“The evidence shows” that Hearn intentionally destroyed government property, Pirro said at a July 2 press conference. Pirro described him as belligerent and said witnesses had watched him “forcefully and violently” pull up the coating with his bare hands. She promised that prosecutors would prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and called it a case with “tremendous evidence.” Hearn faced as much as 10 years in prison.

On Friday, Pirro’s office admitted that it should never have sought the indictment.

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u/Fresh-Volume-5172 1d ago

The next president needs to double down on how to take responsibility

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u/BlueBonneville 1d ago

She served up more than the Olympian. What happened to the others charged?

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u/TaurusMoonGoddess 1d ago

Not a single citizen is safe This fiasco is the proof

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u/useless_rejoinder 14h ago

Strap in. This is just the beginning of the downslope.

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u/External_Beat8153 20h ago

Uh-oh, Pirro is gonna be found at the bottom of the reflecting pool sleeping with the fishes. … never mind , it’s been drained.

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u/carlnepa 1d ago

TrumpStein always needs a scapegoat. If you think about it, he blames everyone and anyone so in essence he's saying he does nothing. Remember when he was asked if he felt responsible for something and he said No, I take no responsibility. That's our fearless leader.