Yes, I’m back at the Reflecting Pool, but I did manage a couple of days without it. This one is HUGELY enjoyable because of what Trump and Pirro are trying to pull. Remember that member of the Olympic Canoe team? He has power on his side; plus, there’s something else he has now. We’ll get to that. With a huge grin and delight for AlterNet:
Olympian David Hearn will appear in court on Thursday morning alongside one of President Donald Trump’s biggest legal foes: Norm Eisen. One of the co-founders of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), Trump has raged about Eisen for years as he loses case after case against the former ethics czar. Trump once referred to Eisen as a “major sleazebag” and “the Lawfare King and Color Revolution Expert” in Truth Social posts. At one point, Trump even blasted CREW, complaining, “Everything I read is Norm Eisen.” According to Trump, “You don’t get much lower than him.” Eisen responded by saying that it’s clear Trump is obsessed with him.
Ahahaha and oh, ho! The prosecuting side of this case just got handed a heap of trouble. Norm Eisen. What a wonderful name to see. Hope he is doing this for fun and not for some outrageous fee that Mr. Hearn doesn’t have to pay because that will be huge. This is going to make things very *interesting*. Also, the fact that he is a major Trump opponent is going to get this case thrown out, and we can hope he does so. Trump is obsessed. And the good guys get better!
This is the “latest scandal of scapegoating and blame shifting and the administration’s own failures on the Reflecting Pool,” Eisen said in a video chat with former prosecutor Joyce Vance. “They’ve charged, with a felony, our client with The Washington Litigation Group, my wonderful co-counsel Mary Dorman, Davy Hearn, the Olympic canoeist.” He asked Vance how, as a former prosecutor and former U.S. attorney, she would have handled something like this.
She explained that in cases like this, she looks through the lens of someone who not only ran a U.S. attorney’s office but also spent a decade prosecuting criminal cases. “Your job as a prosecutor is to consider whether that case is significant enough to merit becoming a federal felony,” Vance continued. “This case doesn’t pass the smell test on that ground, but it also has another major flaw, which is evidence.”
What have I been going on about? Evidence. We found out there are cameras on the Reflecting Pool. We’ve not heard anything about them pulling the video evidence. We’ve not been shown this 2-foot piece of pool that he “ripped up”. The case is legally dubious. They’re trying to pawn the blame on someone else when it really, truly was their fault for this debacle. The whole “cut by a box cutter” for the lining peeling is false. Again, cameras. That pool is *long*.
A video from Emily Miller of the arrest shows Hearn talking about the pool scandal being “funny,” and later he relayed that he accidently hit the hose from the giant cleaner. Hearn has said publicly, “I did not remove, I did not damage, I did not rip, tear, break, destroy or harm any part of the Reflecting Pool.” According to him, he dipped his hand into the pool to feel the coating on the bottom, which was supposed to be “American Flag blue.” Vance explained that, unlike in many other cases, there was no grand jury that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro went to for an indictment. They merely filed the case in superior court, which has “less rigorous standards.” Pirro has failed to indict several people by going to grand juries in D.C.
What does that say to us? They’re trying to make Mr. Hearst the scapegoat for “damaging” the pool. He was wearing biking gear. You can’t hide a box cutter in that. They also searched him. And there’s video! We sincerely hope that Mr. Eisan absolutely shreds the prosecutors. That would be a sight to see! Trump’s DoJ fails again And another list I should have been keeping.
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