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David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was indicted on felony charges for allegedly damaging the Reflecting Pool—an incident Trump had publicly dismissed.
David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was indicted on felony charges for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump had publicly dismissed the incident as minor, but prosecutors moved forward with felony charges anyway. The disproportionate response—felony charges for touching a pool—stands out, especially given Trump's public minimization of it.
This looks like prosecutors making a point by going harder on a case the president tried to downplay. If the same incident involving someone without Trump's attention would have drawn a misdemeanor or fine, the felony charge here reads as prosecutorial defiance of the president's preferred outcome.
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