{"id":5375,"date":"2026-07-31T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:38:26","slug":"holy-wow-experts-dumbstruck-as-trump-doj-forced-to-fold-reflecting-pool-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"‘Holy wow’: Experts dumbstruck as Trump DOJ forced to fold Reflecting Pool case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department was forced to withdraw its vandalism case against an Olympic canoeist it accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n

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In a motion to withdraw the case, flagged by Meidas Touch’s Scott MacFarlane, prosecutors threw the Department of the Interior under the bus and claimed they now have evidence the damage to the beloved Washington, D.C. landmark was done by contractors working on Trump’s renovation project, and that signs of the damage were seen over a week before David “Davey” Hearn was ever seen in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

The end of the case, which followed a series of prosecutorial blunders and national ridicule of Trump for his failure to properly renovate the pool, drew immediate reaction from commenters on social media \u2014 with many calling it a monumental failure for Trump’s hand-picked D.C. U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n

“Oh you don\u2019t sayyyyyyyy,” wrote political commentator Molly Jong-Fast.<\/p>\n

“Holy wow,” wrote former Pentagon special counsel and New York University law professor Ryan Goodman. “We’ve been tracking the DOJ withdrawals of indictments, dismissals by judges, rejections of subpoenas, no bills by grand juries and more … Add this one to the list.”<\/p>\n

“How absolutely embarrassing for US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and this Administration,” wrote national security attorney Mark S. Zaid. “I trust at least a public apology is forthcoming to all of those adversely affected by these frivolous prosecutions.”<\/p>\n

Read more Raging Trump pal unravels at Fox News CEO with vomit of sexist profanities<\/a><\/p>\n

“The judge would have forced the prosecution to provide the grand jury instructions\/transcripts to the defense,” wrote Alex Cole of Newsitics. “Pirro knows she would have been caught red-handed.”<\/p>\n

“My god I never thought I’d see the day when Jeannine Pirro would (expletive) up her 112th prosecution but here we are,” wrote Georgia trial lawyer Andrew Fleischman.<\/p>\n

“I hope he sues the ever loving (expletive) out of every single one of these a–holes,” wrote podcaster Joanne “JoJoFromJerz” Carducci.<\/p>\n

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