House Democrats seek records in dropped Reflecting Pool case against ex-Olympian
The request follows Pirro’s move to drop charges after evidence suggested the Reflecting Pool damage came from a flawed installation, not vandalism.
- White House officials directed the Department of Justice to consider launching another lawsuit against Olympian David Hearn, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
- U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro moved to drop the initial July indictment after discovering evidence that the Reflecting Pool's loose lining resulted from a rushed, flawed installation process.
- During an August 5 Oval Office meeting, Pirro confronted Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, accusing him of using the Reflecting Pool damage as a "self-serving cover story" to mislead the president.
- House Democrats requested federal records and communications regarding the dropped prosecution, launching an oversight inquiry into whether political interference shaped the legal action against Hearn.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo Monday establishing executive privilege protections over communications with private advisers, potentially enabling the administration to stonewall Congress regarding these records.
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Doug Burgum’s Interior Department is slowly coming apart
Even the relatively staid-seeming Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum hasn’t escaped the mud-slinging that has dominated and defined Donald Trump’s two-term tenure as president. After a high-profile White House clash this month between the former North Dakota governor and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over the latter’s failure to prosecute bystanders accused of marring the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — a monument managed by the Interior Dep…
House Dems Accuse Trump of a ‘Cover-Up’ Regarding the ‘Botched’ Renovation of Lincoln Reflecting Pool
House Democrats are investigating the Trump administration’s handling of the prosecution of a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before prosecutors acknowledged that the damage was caused by a botched renovation. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding communications from US...
Judiciary Committee Dems Open Investigation Into DOJ’s Reflecting Pool Revenge Prosecutions
The current president continues to self-destruct. Fortunately for us, he insists on doing this publicly. After handing a donor and an unproven company the massive job of redoing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in “American flag blue” in hopes of being able to use it to celebrate himself during America’s 250th birthday, everything went tits […]
Raskin: There Is a 'Structural and Systemic Crisis' at DOJ
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said there is a “structural and systemic crisis at the Department of Justice.” Discussing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Raskin said, “They knew for many days before that there The post Raskin: There Is a ‘Structural and Systemic Crisis’ at DOJ appeared first on Breitbart.
'It's so unbelievable': Lawyer floored as Trump DOJ seeks to revive case without evidence
A lawyer who stood up to the Department of Justice and won in a high-profile case expressed shock when talking about it being revived.During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday night, lawyer Norm Eisen spoke about the possibility of President Donald Trump's DOJ bringing back the case against Olympic canoer David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. The case was dismissed last week, as the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District…
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