Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Drudge Retort

Menu

Subscriptions

Drudge Retort RSS feed RSS Feed

Links

Recent Comments

Recent comments from all news stories on this site. Users must follow the site's moderation policy. Personal attacks, profanity, abusive conduct and expressions of prejudice are not allowed. If you want to retrieve a comment of yours that was recently deleted, visit your user page and click the Moderation link.

Another view ...

Pirro moves to drop case against Olympian, says Reflecting Pool damage caused by flawed installation'
www.cnbc.com

... After the pool appeared to show issues following its renovation, Trump repeatedly claimed, without providing evidence, that vandals had cut a gash hundreds of feet long along the bottom.

But Pirro said in Friday's court filing said a "botched installation" was to blame.

Prosecutors had presented a grand jury in D.C. with "evidence that damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by vandals" after receiving initial reports to that effect from the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Park Police, Pirro wrote.

But after that grand jury returned its indictment against Hearn, the Interior Department provided "additional documents" showing that the damage occurring in June was the "result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings," Pirro said.

She also blamed "the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026."

Asked for additional comment, the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. told CNBC, "The motion speaks for itself." ...


Update ...

DOJ moves to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against David Hearn, says damage due to "botched installation"
www.cbsnews.com

... Federal prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to dismiss an indictment charging former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with ripping up the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, citing new information that the damage was caused by a "botched installation" by a contractor, not vandalism....

Here's one method of checking on our, um, "favorite" people: www.doadb.com

This website does not report Mitch McConnell as sleeping with the fish (yet).

Drudge Retort

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy