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The Olympian was visiting what has become poster child for trump's corruption and incompetence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/

David Hearn had just finished a loop around Hains Point on Friday as part of a 52-mile bike ride when he swung by the Lincoln Memorial to see the refurbished Reflecting Pool for himself.

Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the pool bottom, Hearn said he reached into the water to see what it felt like. Moments later, as the Bethesda man prepared to leave, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. He is scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court on July 9.

Hearn’s arrest ignited a social media flurry as President Donald Trump and his allies blamed the pool overhaul’s problems on administration opponents. Emily Miller, a conservative journalist, posted a 2 minute and 8 second video on Twitter, which showed Hearn detained by two members of the National Guard and subsequently surrounded by Park Police officers.

“Man arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Reflecting Pool. He grabbed the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae,” wrote Miller, who confirmed via text that she had filmed the encounter but declined to speak on the record.

In an interview Saturday, Hearn, 67, denied damaging government property and said he had never touched the hose, though he acknowledged that his bike tire may have.

“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”

Hearn, wearing biking gear and a helmet, can be seen in the video with his hands cuffed behind his back. Fragments of conversation are audible. But a pump operating in the background drowns out much of the exchange.
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Asked to describe his actions, Hearn said: “I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece. It was still attached to the bottom. I didn’t remove anything.”

Hearn is a three-time Olympian who competed in the canoe slalom. He won two world championships in whitewater racing before retiring from active competition in 2002.

Trump posted Saturday night that Park Police have arrested “multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool.” Park Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment about additional arrests.

The century-old Reflecting Pool has become controversial following the president’s decision to refurbish the concrete basin with a new liner. As government workers in recent days tried to combat an algae bloom in the reopened attraction, a new problem surfaced: chunks of the pool liner broke free. The Washington Post observed a sheet of the pool’s surface — painted in “American flag blue,” a color selected by the president — floating in the water Thursday.

A few hours after Miller’s video went public, the president in a late-night Truth Social post blamed “Radical Left Lunatics” for “Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool.” Trump promised the algae problem would be quickly resolved and other repairs made early next week.

The president also accused Jonathan Karl of ABC News, who has reported on the pool’s mounting problems, of “trying to rip the rubber off of the surface” of the pool.

In 1996, Park Police arrested Hearn for canoeing on the Potomac River after heavy rains left it near a record high. A federal judge dismissed charges of failing to obey a lawful order because the river where Hearn was canoeing is governed by Maryland not the federal government.

On Friday, Hearn said he was detained for almost five hours at a Park Police facility on Hains Point before being released shortly after 9 p.m. He was reunited with his bike and rode home.
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i can already see it, itt esl shill makes a bunch of weird death/rape threats
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>Billions of dollars in welfare fraud
>Gavin Newson being investigated for embezzling hundreds of millions
>Literal rape gangs being covered up
>CNN devotes over four hours of news coverage to the reflecting pool
>TDS so bad that the reflecting pool is attracting liberals like a shrine
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oh, and itt esl shill also gets upset because people reported news he doesn't like
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Paid ESL shill shows up automatically
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>>1520559
lol. Get fucked.
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>>1520563
Yes, Trump literally blaming the opposing admin for something he did is an example of TDS, which stands for, That's crazy, these retarded maga faggots have biden Derangement Syndrome.
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>>1520563
>All stuff that didn't happen.
Except for Trump giving the Iranians 300 billion as part of his surrender to him.
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>>1520563
also, only TDS libruls hate israel
netanyahu dindu nuffin
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>>1520559
He didn’t fucking do anything, and even if he did, how the hell is this something that gets you immediately arrested?
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>Make a big deal about how horrible the reflecting pool looks
>Hand relining job to contractor in April and tell them to get started before you even agree to a price
>Contractor strips and relines the pool, but the lining doesn't take. Strip and reline a second time. Still doesn't take.
>Strip and reline a third time, you tell them "Fuck it good enough, I want that shit filled in time for my rasslin' themed birthday party!"
>Contractor shrugs and fills in the pool, doesn't give it time to cure properly
>Algae immediately starts blooming in the pool because it's a giant pool of stagnant water in the summer heat
>Hire your convicted criminal buddy who paid you a bribe through your reelection fund to clean up the algae
>Convicted criminal buddy half asses the job, dumps in chemicals that dissolve the already weak lining
>Chunks start floating to the top of the pool
>Algae comes back anyway
>Start arresting people picking at the chunks of dissolved lining
>Try to blame the entire thing falling apart on them because cause and effect just kind of go whichever way you want
>Normal people see right through your bullshit, the retard base eats it up like they have every ridiculous lie you've told for the last decade
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>>1520581
Aside from the fact it wasn't taken care of by the previous admin. That and since it dRumpf, there's now a bunch of bullshit liggerals are bitching about.
A far cry from 2019's Hunter Biden's penis, Ashley Biden, and tRump fucking up COVID (Despite 2021 being the deadliest year, without complaint), driving up gas prices higher than the Iran war without a stupid fucking war, two years of double digit inflation.
So, let's go ham on the reflecting pool shit that no one really even cares about, not even the liggeral oinkers from shitsville.
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>antifa attacks reflecting pool with algae
>"lol drumpf btfo'
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>>1520582
>no one even cares about this humiliating moment guys
>trust me
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>>1520583
Tell Trump that hot summers are antifa bioweapons. This is how we get him to deal with climate change.
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>>1520584
Biden didn't.
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The entire pool is literally going to need to be resurfaced because shit's peeling up. You can't fucking vandalize trash. What a fucking joke. What's next, arresting WH staff for emptying the bins?
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>>1520587
Arresting the WH janitor for """stealing""" the silverware that Trump threw out.
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>>1520581
>>1520585
Don't forget basic science since the dark blue trump personally selected more easily absorbs heat, warming up the water which is why the algae bloom occurred.
Any scientist could have told him that if he didn't have Project 2025 fire them all.
Classic fascist tactic to blame a non existent enemy for his own incompetence and corruption, but that's trump.
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I'm starting to think Democrats did sabotage it as it's been part of their (endless list of) grievances since May.
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>>1520591
>Don't forget the science I heard that wasn't the actual science.
>Men can be women if they think it hard enough is science!
Fucking goons. Why must liggerals make everything fake, gay, and retarded to get dRumpf?
Can you fucking quit?

Painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue will not by itself cause a measurable increase in algae growth, nor will it solve existing algae problems; algae are driven primarily by water chemistry, nutrients, temperature, stagnation and filtration rather than the color of the basin [1] [2] [3]. Industry and park experts quoted in contemporary coverage say resurfacing and coatings are largely cosmetic unless paired with fixes to circulation, filtration and nutrient inputs that actually control algal growth [4] [5].
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>>1520602
Clearly the Russian shills trump hired were wrong, and so are you.
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>>1520559
Literal Stalinist behaviour.
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>>1520602
>I'm a trans obsessed faggot that cannot help bringing up my fetish. I have to scream gender affirming care is anti-science in the face of literally every major organization of physicians on the planet telling me there is science behind it. By making this claim, I claim to know more about human anatomy and physiology than every doctor.

>I have to do this, because if I don't fixate on other people's genitals and controling what they can do with them, I would be forced to confront what a massive, stupid faggot I am.

>I'm going to go on an autistic rant about paint, but why the fuck should you believe anything I say? I talked with authority about gender affirming care and am objectively wrong, according to literally all of the doctors.

>And even if what I say is right, how the fuck is this a win for me? So the PedoTUS whose shitty balls I gargle picked paint for bad reasons that wouldn't have caused this disaster OR prevented it, like he was trying to? So I am just praising him for less than nothing, for failing the same way I think the person I'm criticizing is? He's as bad as some dumbass on 4chan by my own fucking standard.

>God damn I'm a fucking moron. And I hate LGBT people, so I should fucking kill myself to take one out, because no straight man focuses on fake pussy like I do!
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He can argue that he didn't cause any damage in court. There were plenty of other actual vandals arrested. Don't vandalize national parks, it doesn't fight Trump in any way.
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>>1520563
Trump raped kids and the republicans are still covering it up
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>>1520621
I remember esl shills saying stupid shit like this when they were trying to get someone arrested for throwing a sandwich

Instead it'll just be another story about Trumps impotence that'll rejoin the news cycle during the election, so this is just another instance of Trump fucking himself over because he's a moron
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>>1520563
>reflecting pool is attracting liberals like a shrine

ai Al says "Algae blooms in pools are primarily caused by a lack of sanitizer, unbalanced water chemistry, poor water circulation, and the introduction of organic debris."

substitute water for blood, and it sounds like we're talking about tRump.

although it is very easy to sabotage the pool with dried algae spores scraped from a rock in a local pond.

just got upwind of the pond 20 ft away and pretend you're blowing your nose, and release the spores from the tissue paper
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donnie has now officially arrested more people over a dirty pond than over a global scale pedophile rape cult
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>>1520642
why do you hate America so much? Those pedophiles are important, and the girls will need to continue to be raped
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>>1520631
The fascist right did arrest someone for throwing a sandwich and then went through multiple grand juries to force it to trial.
The innocent guy ended up being almost instantly acquitted and was the poster child of fascist lawfare against innocent Americans unlike the fake version they claim happened to them.
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>>1520631
Every other legal case up to then throwing and hitting someone with a sandwich was simple battery. But because the judge supported the protests, it suddenly became legal.

Go throw sandwiches at people and cops randomly on the street and see what happens.
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>>1520685
i'll call your sandwich and raise you a dildo
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jnBsJYqwcts
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Assuming that pic isnt AI, it's more probable he was arrested on a pretence for wearing that t-shirt.
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>>1520651
That's ridiculous. What's next someone bing arrested for throwing shoes at the president?
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>>1520686
Tactically, the best thing you could use.
>Gestapo aren't going to start picking them up by hand because the images would be used against them
>They also can't claim it's a deadly weapon because who's been killed by a dildo (Outside of Saint's Row)
>It highlights the absurdity of American soil being occupied by a hostile force.
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>>1520705
Could be worse, could be another staged assassination. We're up to 4 of them now?
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>>1520704
Not only is it AI, it's from a different news story.
Dude's a UFC fighter that was AI'd into some shit.
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>>1520716
>Butler PA
>Florida golf course
>November plot
>Houston plot
>that one guy who tried to bomb trump tower with propane tanks in his tesla
>correspondents dinner shooting
These are the only ones we know about.
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>>1520716
When did you become a conspiracy theorist?
It seems like you are going full Alex Jones saying that shootings were fake and gay, staged shootings with fake bullets even while these shootings have real fatalities
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>>1520764
16% accuracy rate sounds about the right level of failure for right wing retards

Its all sound and fury meaning nothing. Trumps only screeching about vandals for his failed pool project to rile up his base and head off lawsuits against his corrupt crony that got the no-bid contract because they completely fucked up the job
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tRump tore down half the White House, has dirt bikes riding around the White House And literally built his own swamp

now he needs to anger Israel more, so they use nukes, and we can get to the big stuff
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>>1520764
I'd be a rightoid if I was into conspiracy theories
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Such a rich shade of green…
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>>1520563
Trump is a lying piece of shit.
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>>1520788
>And literally built his own swamp
Stealing this.
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>>1520637
Pay some kid to skip a rock from a pond. Not that you'd need too. Algae just gets around. For what it's worth the pool looked like shit after he painted it. I genuinely kind of like the algae green. At least from a distance. It look natural and calm. Really sells the vibe.
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Maybe, just maybe, some damage was done by driving the presidential motorcade across the newly lined pool back in May.
Yes, Trump wanted to take a closer look at the progress being made, but he wanted to do it his way, so he got the entire motorcade to drive the length of the pool. This included two limousines, each weighing 20,000 pounds, and escort vehicles weighing up to 12,000 pounds each, all driving across the freshly lined pool bottom.
Sure hope they arrest the guy responsible for that damage.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2200266/trump-motorcade-may-be-partially-responsible-for-reflecting-pool-damage/
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>>1520559
>Hearn said he reached into the water to see what it felt like.
Imagine how fucking stupid you have to be to believe this nonsense. Imagine how fucking pathetic the media is to give oxygen to this nonsense when there is a video of him fucking with the hose while workers are fixing the pool.



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