Trump turned on his own prosecutor Monday. "I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "She folded like an umbrella." Then, "Frankly, I think she choked."
Pirro's crime: she stopped prosecuting a story that was never true.
Narativ reported Saturday the vandalism was a lie. The Justice Department’s own filing killed it Friday: prosecutors moved to dismiss the felony indictment against David Hearn, the 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist arrested June 19 after he touched a peeling strip of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner during a bike ride. The filing blamed "contractor error" and a "botched installation" — not vandalism. Since Friday, Pirro’s office has dropped or moved to drop the misdemeanor cases against Justin Carreno, Cameron Thiers and Sophie Dennison-Gibby.
Four accused. Zero vandals.
Hearn’s account never changed: he was biking past, picked up a chunk of coating already peeling off the bottom, and dropped it when a park worker told him to.
Trump told the vandalism story three times, in detail. Somebody took "a knife, a box cutter and a razor" to 350 feet of liner, he said. The people who did it were "thugs," "sick," "terrible."
The Justice Department’s filing says: "contractor error."
The contractor the filing blames has a name Narativ readers already know.
