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12:51Now PlayingAttorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the collapsing Reflecting Pool renovation and the arrest of three-time U.S. Olympian David "Davey" Hearn, 67, who was handcuffed by National Guard troops and Park Police for touching a piece of peeling paint during a bike ride. Hearn, a world champion canoeist with a background in materials science, said he was "a curious citizen" who "reached down to see what it felt like." He was detained for five hours without a phone call and charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property. He has no political activist history. Trump blamed "radical left lunatics" for vandalizing the pool, claimed without evidence that saboteurs dumped corrosive chemicals and carved "86 47" into the grass, and threatened 10-year prison sentences. Brian points out the contradictions: if corrosive chemicals were dumped, there wouldn't be algae. No security camera footage has been produced. The real problem is a $16.4 million no-bid contract awarded to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a company that has worked on Trump's golf courses but that Trump says he's "never heard of." The paint started peeling within weeks of completion. Brian calls Hearn a classic scapegoat picked to distract from a botched renovation.
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