{"id":796435,"date":"2026-08-01T00:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:46:24","slug":"jeanine-pirro-drops-reflecting-pool-case-against-david-hearn-cites-flawed-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796435\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanine Pirro Drops Reflecting Pool Case against David Hearn, Cites &#8216;Flawed Installation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260731_cc12d611a74e44e6b5592c26c0431e5d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e2c459ed-0488-4b8c-bc73-6f6bceb36652\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc12d611a74e44e6b5592c26c0431e5d_md.jpg\" alt=\"jeanine pirro and david hearn getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/david-hearn\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Hearn<\/a> was torched by U.S. Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeanine-pirro\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanine Pirro<\/a>, who charged him with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool &#8230; but now she&#8217;s eating her words and dropping the case, because the pieces that came apart were caused by shoddy installers.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9d6fd19b63ff4e4baa9415540ab78722_md.png\" alt=\"062226 donald trump kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><br \/>\n                      JUNE 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Trump<\/a> made sweeping comments shortly after the Reflecting Pool started to fall apart, saying it was the result of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/21\/trump-calls-slams-alleged-reflecting-pool-vandalism\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fd74f484f99249589f78fbb2061bc609_md.png\" alt=\"070126 jeanine pirro kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><br \/>\n                      7\/2\/26<\/p>\n<p>Pirro claimed there were witnesses who saw Hearn reach down in the water and tear the lining. He insists he never did such a thing &#8230; he just picked up a piece that was already dislodged.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made all sorts of claims &#8230; including that vandals cut a 300-foot gash with some sort of knife.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260624_2db237d57010496fbdb4093df5758572\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e2c459ed-0488-4b8c-bc73-6f6bceb36652\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2db237d57010496fbdb4093df5758572_md.png\" alt=\"sub reflecting pool getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, all of that is bunk, because Pirro now admits the allegations appear bogus, and that it was faulty installation. She also pointed the finger at the Dept. of Interior, saying it &#8220;provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pirro blames the problems on a rush to complete the project ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/05\/reflecting-pool-cleaning-after-fourth-of-july\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/a> It was Trump&#8217;s idea to fast-track the construction, and clearly that didn&#8217;t pay off.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, Hearn &#8212; a 3-time U.S. Olympian &#8212; was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/21\/david-hearn-arrested-for-allegedly-vandalizing-lincoln-memorial\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0in June\u00a0by U.S. Park Police for misdemeanor destruction of government property. He pleaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/09\/david-hearn-pleads-not-guilty-to-damaging-reflecting-pool\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not guilty<\/a> to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn&#8217;s lawyer is now demanding an apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympian David Hearn was torched by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who charged him with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-796435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}