A former Olympian and canoe racer, David Hearn, was indicted on a felony charge of property destruction in Washington D.C., following an incident where he allegedly damaged the recently installed sealant of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The vandalism occurred on June 19th, with Hearn reportedly pulling up the bottom liner "with both hands" and acting aggressively towards a park employee who asked him to stop. The District of Columbia U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, stated that the damage caused exceeded $1,000. In response to the charges, Hearn's legal representatives, Norm Eisen and Mary Dohrmann, argued that the case represented a misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a fabricated narrative. Hearn, aged 67, from Bethesda, Maryland, previously stated that he had touched a peeled coating in the pool during a bike ride before being detained by National Guard troops and U.S. Park Police for five hours. President Trump has been vocal about alleged vandalism of the Reflecting Pool, attributing it to individuals who seemingly sabotaged a $16-million rehabilitation project initiated by him for the nation's 250th anniversary celebration. Despite providing no substantiation, Trump also claimed that vandals dumped fertilizer into the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter. The administration faced scrutiny over the botched renovation, leading to increased security around the Reflecting Pool as contractors and federal workers combated an algae bloom using chemicals and ozone nanobubbles, with Trump suggesting that further liner repairs might necessitate draining the pool again.