Trump LOSES HIS MIND as Reflecting Pool ENGINEER SCREWS HIM!!!

As it turns out, someone did, in fact, take a knife to the sealant of the reflecting pool, just like Donald Trump said.But it wasn't David Hearn.It wasn't an Olympian.It wasn't a vandal.It was a representative of the federal government, a National Park Service engineer, who because of the botched job by Donald Trump's no -bid contractor, decided to cut off some loose and peeling sealant rather than let it flop around.That's one of the many explosive revelations of a brand new court filing by David Hearn and his attorneys after the government had admitted the case against him was a sham based on a number of lies that they claimed to have discovered after the fact.

Today on All Rise News and Legal AF, I'm going to go into the court filing, show what it revealed about what the government knew and when it knew it.And of course, this is now blowing up in the face of Jeanine Pierrot, who is the former Fox personality turned Trumpian US attorney who is clinging to dear life for her job after her prosecutors moved to dismiss several of the cases against the so -called vandals of the reflecting pool after the government admitted none of them were in fact vandals.The damage to the reflecting pool as many experts said long ago, was caused by the shoddy job by the no -bid contractors.They have admitted that in a court filing, and they have asked a federal judge to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning that the Trump Department of Justice can bring it back again anytime that they want.David Hearn's lawyers replied that their client shouldn't face the prospect of anotherTrump -directed prosecution when the government has admitted that their case was built on a lie.

I'm going to go into the 28 -page filing where they explain why prosecutors shouldn't get another bite of the apple.Quote, from day one, the case against Mr. Hearn was motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support.Those political pressures have not dissipated in the mere four weeks since the government saw fit to obtain the indictment.Indeed, after the U .S.Attorney's Office for D .

C.filed its motion to dismiss the indictment, the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Interior publicly attacked the U .S.Attorney's Office's dismissal of the case.The Department of Justice has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to seek or reinstate criminal charges to satisfy the president, irrespective of law and facts.Fortunately, D .

C.law has a remedy for circumstances presenting this risk of harassment or bad faith, dismissal with prejudice." Now, this filing goes into the evidence that was at the government's disposal, showing that they knew that there was damage to the pool long before David Hearn's arrest.The filing says, despite the wealth of evidence available to the government undermining its vandalism theory, the U .S.Attorney's Office of D .

C.elected to pursue a politically motivated prosecution against Mr. Hearn, even as it now misleadingly contends that critical exculpatory evidence was unavailable to investigators at the time.The record conclusively demonstrates that the U .S.Attorney's Office of D .C.

had no basis to pursue felony charges in the first instance, and its decision to do sois the latest example of its failure to withstand political pressure from the president.And just like the government's filing before it, the defense filing has photographs of the pool, photographs of the damage that was circulating on social media by pro -Trump accounts, showing that even before David Hearn ever went to the pool, that there was visible damage to the pool, and that in fact, the government had possession of a so -called damage assessment that had a graph of the many different places inside the pool that had damage, not only the part that they had accused this innocent Olympian of damaging.The filing says, A prosecutor who was prepared to seek a felony indictment based on the supposed condition of the liner could not reasonably ignore the readily apparent evidence that the liner itself was failing.The government's theory depended upon proving that Mr. Hearn caused specific, compensable damage to the intact liner.Yet the available evidence established that the liner was visibly failing, that material was detaching in locations unrelated to Mr. Hearn, and that repairs were required because of installation defects.

The government blatantly ignored that evidence.Now, Jeanine Pierrot and her prosecutors are blaming the Department of the Interior, saying that they withheld information that had they known about it, if they only knew the information that was in the Department of the Interior's possession, they would not have gone in and plowed ahead with the case.And David Hearn's lawyers debunk that in the filing, saying, quote,the two offices worked hand in glove.The DOI was part of the prosecution team.They built the case together, in other words.

And much worse than that, you know, right now, we do not know whether Jeanine Pirro will survive in the position of U .S.Attorney.Not because she brought a bogus case against an innocent person, but because she refused to sustain it, or she did not intervene when her line prosecutors decided to sustain it.There was that meeting in the White House where Jeanine Pirro was photographed with a box of files that reportedly were the evidence that showed that the case could not have prevailed in court, and Trump has accused her of folding like an umbrella.But she has bigger problems to worry about, as the filing makes clear.

Quote, the United States attorney held an unprofessional and unethical press conference in which he wholly disregarded the DC Bar and DOJ ethics rules by discussing the purported evidence, bolstering the credibility of potential witnesses, and wrongly opining on Hearn's guilt, as she has now effectively conceded.We know that the characterization of that press conference is true.Here's a clip from that press conference.

The indictment is in response to an incident that occurred on June 19th of 2026.in which the defendant Hearn ripped a piece of recently installed sealant on the bottom of the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.The evidence shows, and we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hearn willfully destroyed property at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.This was a delivered act to damage the reflecting pool at the National Mall that members of the National Park Service actually have worked hard to restore and have witnessed.

On this channel, I've discussed time and time again about how the Trump Department of Justice tramples upon the presumption of innocence of defendants who are accused of a crime.no matter how thin the evidence of the accusation.Even if they had an airtight case, ethical prosecutors do not opine on a defendant's guilt or innocence, and they go out of their way to say that a person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty.That is not the Trump Department of Justice, even though it is the way that it operates in every free society.In the Trump Department of Justice, prosecutors pronounce the defendant guilty long before a trial poisoning the jury pool, and they'll do it in the opening press conference, and they'll do it on Trump's favorite right -wing cable network.

Now, as I said at the top of this video, someone

did cut the sealant with a knife.A National Park Service engineer who felt that was the right thing to do because the sealant was peeling in several places and you just don't leave it flapping around.And the government knew it.This is according to the filing.Quote, the engineer told the agents that he had personally cut loose liner and coating with a knife to prevent the peeling from worsening.The government's own engineer determined that it was better to cut off the peeling sections than to let them flap around.

And there's a footnote at the end of that.Check out this footnote.The damage assessment also states that the assessment's author cut off the piece of liner that Mr. Hearn touched.To date, the government has not disclosed the current status of the relevant piece.They haven't told the defense, hey, here's what we did with that liner, this evidence that would have been used in the prosecution of your clients.They didn't disclose whether they tossed it in the trash, whether they put it in an evidence room somewhere, whether they would disclose the evidence itself.

to be examined for exculpatory information by the defense witnesses, no disclosure whatsoever.And to think about the prosecution's request, how they repudiated the entire basis of the case and admitted that the peeling sealant was due to a defective contracting work, that it was installed incorrectly.And they have shredded the basis of the case against Hearn.while asking the court to allow for dismissal.without prejudice, allowing for the possibility of bringing back the case, is simply outrageous.But Hearn's lawyers laid out the stakes of the judge reaching the opposite conclusion.

Here's what they write.Quote, the President of the United States has already voiced his vigorous disagreement with the U .S.Attorney's Office of D .C.'s dismissal of the case against Mr. Hearn, saying that the U .S.

Attorney choked, folded like an umbrella and made a mistake in doubling down on the false claim that the damage was caused by vandalism, and has previously not hesitated to insinuate himself into cases that historically have been the exclusive province of the DOJ, end quote.David Hearn's lawyers demand dismissal with prejudice, and they fired that shot across the bow, saying that Jeanine Pirro has behaved unethically.She has worse things right now than her job to worry about in the wake of this memo.They say that if the judge is not yet willing to dismiss a case with prejudice, he should allow them to look into the grand jury minutes, the grand jury's transcripts, to see what other unethical behavior might lurk in there.But one thing's for certain, the architecture of this case and the other cases being dismissed like it are crumbling faster than that reflecting pool sealant.And on this channel, I'm going to keep folks informed about any updates as another Trump political prosecution collapses.

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