{"id":366379,"date":"2026-08-01T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/doj-admits-reflecting-pool-renovation-was-flawed-drops-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:00:07","slug":"doj-admits-reflecting-pool-renovation-was-flawed-drops-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/doj-admits-reflecting-pool-renovation-was-flawed-drops-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/68bz9VYOcDk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68bz9VYOcDk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department is admitting that a President Donald Trump-prompted $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 DOJ drops charges, admits pool renovation was flawed<br \/>\n3:13 Elie Honig: \u201cA real embarrassment for the Justice Department\u201d<br \/>\n5:45 More from the DOJ\u2019s new court documents<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department is admitting that a President Donald Trump-prompted $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro. 0:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-366379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges for free, here on News ISC. 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