Contradicting claims made repeatedly by President Donald Trump, U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro now says she will seek to dismiss a felony charge against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn who had been accused of ripping up a small square piece of new blue lining from the renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
In a motion filed Friday evening, federal prosecutors conceded that damage to the pool was “the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.” In the build-up to the Trump-renovated pool’s intended July 4 unveiling, the new blue lining began peeling as the water turned green with algae bloom
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