>Government lawyers in their 20-page court filing on Friday said that additional documents provided by the Interior Department since the indictment of Hearn show that the damage was the result of a botched installation by a contractor as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”

>In addition, a recent visual inspection revealed damage throughout the pool, including in the middle — where prosecutors say a vandal would not likely have attempted to peel the lining.

>Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was accused of pulling up a two-foot square piece of the pool’s lining.

>“Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt,” Pirro, a Trump appointee, said in her filing, which asked a judge to formally dismiss the case.

>Pirro in the court filing also blamed the Interior Department for providing “less than fulsome information at the outset of the case.”

>The filing added that had “DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment.” It was a jarring turn in position from Pirro, who claimed the government’s case was built on “tremendous evidence” when she announced the indictment against Hearn last month.

>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in a posting on X appeared to push back against Pirro’s criticism, claiming some of the acts of vandalism were captured on video.

>“We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool,” Burgum added.

>Hearn’s legal team on Saturday criticized both Trump and Pirro and said it was weighing “legal remedies” on behalf of their client.

>“Trump is mad at Pirro because she finally admitted what we made clear in our legal filings all along: Trump’s botched renovation was responsible for the damage — not Davey Hearn,” the legal team said in a statement. “However, her claim that she and her office were previously duped by Interior is nonsense. Starting immediately after the arraignment, our motions repeatedly proved that the administration was to blame for the Reflecting Pool failures, not Davey.”

>Trump on Saturday also posted a nearly four-minute video that appears to have been taken from a security camera, in which three individuals can be seen with their hands in the pool, including one for an extended period.

>The president claimed the video shows “material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter, for all to see!”

>It’s not clear from the video, which appears to be shot from some distance, that any vandalism occurred. Workers can also be seen standing nearby and don’t appear to notice the people sticking their hands in the water.

>In May, Trump announced plans to beautify the Reflecting Pool this spring. Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded a $14.7 million no-bid contract to repaint and waterproof the pool’s concrete floor.

>Atlantic Industrial Coatings did not respond to requests for comment.

>Water was drained and Trump directed that the bottom be painted with what he called “American flag blue.”

>But problems emerged within days of the project’s completion, with chunks of the new liner peeling off.

>Trump was quick to blame vandals. And the National Park Service reported to the U.S. Park Police a June 9 incident in which it claimed a sharp knife or razor cut the pool’s new liner.

>The work on the Reflecting Pool is just one of a number of projects Trump has spearheaded across the nation’s capital. Most prominently, he demolished the White House’s East Wing to build a $400 million ballroom and plans to build a towering arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

>>1527037
You'd think he'd learn about this kind of defamation after the last few lawsuits.

>The facts might say I fucked this whole thing up by rushing the job then running it over with a caravan of armored vehicles, but have you considered my FEELINGS saying it was DSA antifa jihadist ninjas!?

>>1527043
Why would he learn anything if he’s never suffered real consequences?

>>1527043
Your first mistake was assuming he was capable of learning in the first place

>>1527043
> Trump
> learning anything
Pick 1.

>>1527043
Learn?

>>1527054
>>1527043
This, he still hasn't turned over the money to the woman he raped and defamed.

>the result of shoddy construction and not the work of vandals, as he claims.

tRump got personally involved with this project, so inevitable

Here is how you deal with a toddler:
1) it was working fine
2) you fucked with it
3) it doesn't work now.

There is nothing more to it than that. Trump is a big fat toddler.

>>1527187
He did. He's still trying to get refunded, but he did pay out.

>>1527212
Maybe I’m confusing the many lawsuits against him but isn’t he attempting to take this one to the Supreme Court?
The amount of money he spends to lose in court is staggering and a testament to how much money he’s making off his grifts and corruption

>>1527221
Money isn't real when you're rich.

>>1527221
He did. Even they told him "yeah we can't do shit. She won."

The reflecting pool has become the mecca of democucks.

>>1527270
any other unforced trump errors you'd like to blame on democrats

>>1527270
The way you fags try to spin everyone pointing and laughing at Trump's latest embarrassing fuckup is so cute.

>>1527221
He's trying to grift over 2 billion from taxpayers over the fact he and others got prosecuted for his failed coup. It's a given he doesn't are, also he's engaging is SLAPP suits, who's whole purpose is to censor or intimidate people who might stand up against him.
This is why the underage girls who he raped are all in hiding, they both fear getting murdered by MAGA and getting finacially destroyed by trump's SLAPP suits for trying to speak the truth.

The pool reflects the failure of Republicucks such as Trump and 1527270.

>>1527270
It’s not even Trumps fault. I mean he personally didn’t build this with his hands so leave the man alone!

>>1527329
>trump's the one who pushed for it and gave the no bid contract to a crony
It's directly his fault

I vote that this thread stay bumpable.

>>1527037
Looks like he's either going to fire her or already has (someone spotted her wheeling luggage out from her office), further adding to the sheer humiliation of this whole thing that he can't even admit defeat.

>>1527468
Same this pool saga is so funny, anytime you bring it up to a migatard irl they immediately start fuming because they can’t hide behind a screen repeatedly typing you lost tranny

>>1527560
It should really be bigger news that the Trump admin was (and apparently still is) fully willing to frame multiple innocent people and sentence them to years in prison to avoid admitting to a basic mistake.