Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / GettyOn Monday (July 27), a court filing in the case against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has apparently thrown the government’s prosecution into question, thanks to a witness’s testimony that there was already damage. Hearn’s lawyers contend that the witness testimony “established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr. The witness, who was apparently the only one specifically questioned about the damage, ventured that the cost to repair the damage already done to the pool would’ve been $6,000 to $15,000. President Donald Trump has maintained that vandals were to blame for the deterioration of the Reflecting Pool’s lining, which was done in “American flag blue” for the celebration of the United States’ 250th birthday. Trump's Reflecting Pool Vandal Story Collapses In Court was originally published on hiphopwired.com