{"id":120,"date":"2026-07-06T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:43:42","slug":"trumps-corruption-birthright-citizenship-olympian-charged-w-touching-reflecting-pool-norm-eisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship &#038; Olympian Charged w\/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. He is facing a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted. Hearn, who denies the accusations, says he had noticed a partly detached piece of the Reflecting Pool\u2019s blue liner and reached into the water to see what it felt like, when he was quickly arrested and subsequently held in jail for five hours. He is one of at least six people who have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, which has turned green due to algae blooms despite being painted \u201cAmerican-flag blue\u201d at the behest of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=118\">Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI &amp; the \u201cQuasi-Religious\u201d Push for Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do think that Davey is being scapegoated for the failures of the White House with respect to the Reflecting Pool, that the blame is being shifted,\u201d says Norm Eisen, co-founder and executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund. \u201cHe\u2019s innocent, and we intend to vigorously defend the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=116\">\u201cThe American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement\u201d: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eisen speaks about some of the other 300 cases Democracy Defenders Fund is involved in, including legal fights against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger and the Trump administration\u2019s executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship. He also comments on President Trump having made $2.2 billion last year, mostly fueled by cryptocurrency profits. \u201cIt\u2019s corruption on a scale we\u2019ve never seen in American history, and, frankly, seldom in world history,\u201d says Eisen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=114\">\u201cRule of Law vs. Rule of Billionaires\u201d: Supreme Court Says Trump Can Fire Regulators, Except at Fed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. 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Hearn, who denies the accusations, says he had noticed a partly detached piece of the Reflecting Pool\u2019s blue liner and reached into the water to see what it felt like, when he was quickly arrested and subsequently held in jail for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship &amp; Olympian Charged w\/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen - Housing Shift News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=120\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship &amp; Olympian Charged w\/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen - Housing Shift News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. 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