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Trump foe obliterates DOJ's reflecting pool vandalism charges
The DOJ Turned a Pool Dispute into a Political SacrificeA Minor Incident, Inflated on PurposeOlympian David Hearn is in court because the Trump administration chose to turn an alleged scrape of the Reflecting Pool liner into a felony case. The source material says Hearn denies damaging anything, video shows him briefly putting his hand in the pool, and the government’s own charging language is notably softer than the spectacle Jeanine Pirro sold at her press conference.That gap matters. The story is not about a pool. It is about state power selecting a target, dressing up weakness as law…
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