Former Olympian pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool damage case
MacFarlane: Welcome back to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has retained its very swampy, green-like color. It’s still fenced off. It’s still inaccessible. It’s still not in its best shape. It is reflecting again, but it’s almost like it’s quarantined in its green-like state.
Acyn140Full video from Scott MacFarlane here: youtu.be/sx88kLwMAfs
Tatertahts26Don’t expect it to ever get fixed, he has the attention span of a flea. He’s already moved on to his next project, Tarping the White House.
V P Felmlee22"Fenced off" is kind of a reflection of a lot of our country right now, isn't it.
nonnaknows.bsky.social16He is ruining DC, one place at a time. Actually, multiple places at a time. He doesn't finish one project before starting another. I have to believe he is spending money as fast as he can to give his buddies their high fee (profit margin) contracts. There is no other reason that makes any sense.
Lpeterp11The Trump pal contractor pocketed millions for this substandard work. Who's going pay to rectify this mess of public property?
Ray Bannatyne8And the iDJiT's motorcade stunt down the pool's length figures nowhere in this debacle apparently? What a stupid reckless thing to do!
Dom Ervolina17I'm old enough to remember when they said the fencing was for the 4th of July fireworks
Fun13don’t keep the spotlight from the other trump water feature
Shawn Milrad8Gotta hand it to the Big Orange. No one makes city aesthetics completely deteriorate into total shit quite like he does.
DJ3I've said this since 2016: They ARE the swamp.
So Sayeth Black Lord:2It’s just crazy how he ruins literally everything
Supporters of former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn hold signs following Hearn’s arraignment on a felony destruction of property charge related to “vandalizing” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, at DC Superior Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 9, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
swanj.bsky.social15we have to end MAGA and get respect back in our country. Persecuting innocent people and perceived "enemies" by a demented psychopath is NOT where this country should be at 250. It makes me so sad and mad.
Irish-Seanchai13Ben, you need to interview this pool expert who I can’t believe Fox actually put on the air! youtu.be/1EMcS_tQhPE?...
GoguenHarvey9Who drives a motorcade of extremely heavy vehicles over a pool project that wasn't even complete at the time? Don't bother to answer, it was a rhetorical question aimed at MAGAts. I'll see myself out now...
Hittielove28🎶 It had it comin' It had it comin' It only had Trump to blame If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha you would have done the same🎶
lakerider.bsky.social7The POTUS driving right through wet paint, no less.
Citizen A Speaks5How has this case NOT been immediately dismissed????
Norm Eisen - the defense attorney for David Hearn in the Reflecting Pool case --- said Hearn is "innocent" and they're ready to battle the Justice Dept.
LAinRearView16When can we start a class action lawsuit to get our tax dollars back for all of this crap?
Freestatefemale8Discovery will be delicious if it gets that far. We get to know what the company did, damage from his motorcade road trip, etc.
Me8Trump lied at first when he said there was a liner in the pool and it wasn’t! Now when you think about a liner, it covers the whole pool, including every wall and goes right up that wall to the top of the pool held on by a piece of coping. It was actually a pool coating. Gigantic difference.
tollerlover05.bsky.social4I hope someone down there has started a GoFundMe for this innocent gentleman.
Sherry3Trumpnhas the reflecting pool fenced in with National Guards for security Treating it like Fort Knox What the hell are they hiding??????
Maggie's Farm3I wonder how far Hearn's lawyer can go as far as demanding all the paperwork behind this reflecting pool debacle. It's going to be interesting to see all the receipts and "planning" that went into this project. Should play like a sitcom of stupid.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Olympian pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool damage case after Trump alleged vandalism.
J.J.12Can't believe they're actually going forward with prosecution. We need to break our dystopia.
ART4No jury in DC will convict
ADaveSaysWhat3Here’s the thing. They know he didn’t do it he’s a scapegoat. But scapegoats work because news cycles. By the time he is exonerated we will all have forgotten and maga had their boogie man. Like the women in Georgia who sued the shit out of Rudy. None of us know their names.
TommyTweeted3They are wasting more money on a dead end prosecution!!!
cary2.bsky.social1Shameful to put David Hearn through a show trial when no one believes he's guilty of anything at all.
Jubilado05051How could this have even been indicted? DC grand juries have been stalwart in shutting down these bogus political prosecutions. I believe the Olympian who described what he did. Doesn’t sound like a felony to me. Doesnt soumd like a misdemeanor either. Sounds like BS.
Canoeist David Hearn plead not guilty in D.C. Superior Court Thursday to a charge of destruction of property causing more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. n.pr/4f7tis7
eekamax15He is 100% a scapegoat. Touching the pool is not vandalism and they know it. They just desperately need someone to blame.
mintje77y.bsky.social11The goal is not to convict this guy. The goal is to have a record of “we prosecuted him” and make the whole thing as inconvenient as possible for his daily life. And, most importantly, to be an example of what could happen to you. And release the god damn files already
cgogolow.bsky.social9Don't we all know who is ultimately guilty
Evergreen7Here’s the scam: the project has a 1 year total warranty meaning the contractor is required to correct their shitty work for no extra cost to the government for 12 months. BUT vandalism is not covered, obviously. A warranty call of this size would result in a loss for the company on this project.
Steel Rat Gamer4I want my taxes going towards justice for the Epstein victims Not an olympian putting his hand in a pool
Raffy4Absurd. Those who attacked police, broke doors & windows of the Capitol and planned to hang the VP on Jan 6 are pardoned. And they arrested someone for sticking his hand in the RP to touch a piece of broken sealer? Come on. How does MAGA go on?
T.J. Stiles20Here’s a sentence I never imagined myself saying: Today we are all former Olympian canoeists. Fight, Hearn, fight.
Derrell Durrett2The absurdity of this charge is beyond my ken. I thought we wouldn't get to this point until I was afraid to post here under my own name.
Katieboo 2So, and hear me out here... the renovation cost $14million. $14 MILLION What on earth kind of 'damage' is $1000? 0.007% of the reno cost. Make it make sense. 🤷♀️
Keith Roysdon2Hey @npr.org , did you ask them what kind of evidence they had against him? Because y’all know that if you ask and they refuse to say you can report that right?
Hearn emerged from court Thursday to a crowd of supporters after entering a “Not Guilty” plea in the vandalism case Trump brought against him. He's become a scapegoat & nucleus for Trump’s claims that gangs of vandals (not incompetence) caused his reflecting pool algae. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
DeirdreDonovan2Once again, we will use the Courts to address this trumpwardian regime. We are going to have this issue for the next two years because they want to wear us down and become apathetic and hopeless. Don't give in. That's exactly what they want. Try to help others get registered. This November Matters.
Big Steve2Ten hg heavy duty fortified bulletproof SUVs drove over the freshly applied, wrong application curing deflecting pool surface, so trump can inspect the work. Those SUVs are about a ton each. Trump is the vandal that cracked the treatment, not people putting hands in the water. Trump is the culprit.
Three-time Olympic canoe racer David Hearn pleaded not guilty to deliberately damaging the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. The 67-year-old was met with cheers as he left the courthouse Thursday morning. He was indicted on a single felony count of property destruction last week.
PBS News13Hearn says he reached into the pool to examine the peeled liner but let go when told to do so by a park worker. His lawyers say the case against him is based on a "concocted narrative."
A Laughing Monk2This has entered into the realm of the surreal. Can this administration be any less legitimate? Any more cartoon in nature? Oh, man, I hope not!
LIVE: Trump's Reflecting Pool MESS to be drained AGAIN for repairs with same no-bid contractor as former Olympian in court TODAY for alleged vandalism WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/live/kc7aL_n...
coconutlizard.bsky.social1Ass backwards always. Chaos and destruction always. We need Dems in charge. Biden did so much good!
goldenoak.bsky.social1I want to see pictures of the lining.
Reichstag Dumpster Fire1they’re using this project to direct water from the river to the data center being built in the bunker under the white house ballroom, it’s a cover
