The shoddy paint job of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool was a silly summer story that should have been a relatively minor political embarrassment, at most, to President Donald Trump. But given the details of the Reflecting Pool cases, which Pirro laid out in a 20-page filing seeking to drop the charges on Friday, it’s a wonder why any experienced prosecutor would have pursued them in the first place. The government filed a felony charge against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, for allegedly tugging “violently” at the pool liner in June. After the pool was drained last month, the damage was clearly more extensive than anything people could have accomplished from the pool’s edge. The post The absurdity of the Reflecting Pool prosecutions appeared first on Washington Post.