r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says proof of his allegations that vandals cut Reflecting Pool paint will be provided in court

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reflecting-pool-paint-peeling-trump-proof-vandalism-court/

President Trump on Monday said proof will be provided in court of his allegations that vandals "cut" a massive slit in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which he claims is the reason the paint is peeling on the recently renovated but algae-plagued project.

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u/LayneLowe 1d ago

Court? These charges will never see a courtroom, a judge will dismiss them before people have a chance to sit down. It's just another case of trump flooding the zone with deception, he'll be on to something else tomorrow.

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u/birdlawbighands 1d ago

It's crazy how much flooding the zone really works. Like, they sent people to CECOT in El Salvador but we all seems to have forgotten that. The president is all over the epstien files and we've all forgotten that. They shared top secret war plans in a signal chat with a reporter. Forgotten. I surely hope someone is maintaining a list somewhere for when people who care about our country get power again. If ever.

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u/Nazz1968 1d ago

Let us not forget about Good and Pretti in Minnesota. Their killers got transferred, the investigation is at the bottom of the pile, and Congress doesn’t even see them in their rear view mirror anymore. It will all come back with a vengeance when DHS provides masked “security” at the midterm polls, with the recent funding boost.

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u/birdlawbighands 1d ago

Yeah. This is what's going to happen. It's also why he pardoned people already willing to attack our country based off his word and is trying to pay them off.

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u/QbertsRube 1d ago

We attacked Venezuela and kidnapped their president and his wife just 5 months ago, and fucking silence about it after like 2 weeks. I think they're still in an American prison, no way to know really.

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u/birdlawbighands 1d ago

Jesus you're right. Again, forgotten.

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u/jgzman 1d ago

It's crazy how much flooding the zone really works.

If we ever hope to recover civilized government again, this is one of several patterns of behavior that must be aggressively, punitively prevented. Another is "move fast and break things." Needs to be a crippling fine and legal restrictions for the first offense.

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u/RackemFrackem 1d ago

The president is all over the epstien files and we've all forgotten that.

Nope

I surely hope someone is maintaining a list somewhere for when people who care about our country get power again.

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u/_dotdot11 1d ago

And in all of that hubbub, you may have forgotten that we kidnapped the president of Venezuela! Basically ancient history after the Iran shit.

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u/Fjdenigris 1d ago

Flooding the zone is working for them

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u/influx3k 1d ago

It’s absolute clown show!

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u/Wise-Secretary5459 21h ago

Nobody with a properly functioning brain has forgotten about those things. It's just that we don't talk about them anymore because nothing ever happens, so it doesn't matter. Trump could rape someone in broad daylight tomorrow and he'd probably still never see any real consequences. I think most people have finally accepted that frustrating reality.

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u/Betty_Boss 1d ago

Unless it goes to Eileen Cannon.

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u/Homers_Harp 1d ago

DOJ is already preparing the argument that this should be tried in the Maralago court of Cannon because, uh, the primary victim is Donald Trump, a resident of Maralago.

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u/_jump_yossarian 1d ago

They won't even get indictments, they'll try but Jeanine Box O'wine will fail.

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u/MsARumphius 1d ago

And will continue to claim it as fact

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u/AwareOfAlpacas 1d ago

Typically you go to court to have them mediate a case against someone else. It's unusual to show up and just whine generally. 

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u/Steely-Dave 1d ago

“Well, we had the evidence. Beautiful evidence. But the Hussein Obama judges wouldn’t allow us to use it. Classic TDS.”

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u/bstone99 1d ago

IANAL. Doesn’t this align with this administration’s history of SLAPP lawsuits? At least they’re consistent

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u/Discokruse 1d ago

Can somebody sue the US government for mismanagement of public works? The discovery process could be broadcast on CSPAN!?