{"id":40901,"date":"2026-07-09T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=40901"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:11:54","slug":"trump-erfindet-vandalen-und-ein-siebenundsechzigjaehriger-soll-dafuer-ins-gefaengnis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/trump-erfindet-vandalen-und-ein-siebenundsechzigjaehriger-soll-dafuer-ins-gefaengnis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Invents Vandals, and a Sixty Seven Year Old Man Is Supposed to Go to Prison for It"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have already reported on this absurdity in our news briefs. The farce has continued, and it has now grown into a criminal prosecution. David Hearn, sixty seven years old, a resident of Bethesda, Maryland, and a three time Olympic sprint canoeist, appeared before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Thursday, where one of his attorneys entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. Last Thursday, a grand jury indicted him on one count of malicious destruction of property, a felony under American law, based on a single charge and on alleged damages exceeding one thousand dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arrest of David Hearn<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The alleged crime took place at the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Before the celebrations marking the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of American independence, the President ordered the pool renovated at a cost of sixteen million dollars, and the project was plagued by problems from the very beginning. Contractors installed equipment designed to generate microscopic air bubbles and infuse the water with ozone to kill algae and bacteria because the pool had been overtaken by an algal bloom. When blue fragments of the newly applied coating began floating on the surface, officials acknowledged that the pool would likely have to be drained again so the lining could be repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n