{"id":92390,"date":"2026-08-16T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:44:20","slug":"reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Pool interviews: CEO, olympian &amp; attorney react to the saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as \u201cabsolutely filthy\u201d and vowed to <!--more--> make it \u201clook gorgeous.\u201d One of his changes was to paint the bottom of the pool \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d By June 11, a National Park Service engineer\u2019s saw that this bottom layer was peeling, a phenomenon that Trump blamed on vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was arrested and indicted when he reached into the Reflecting Pool. The case was later dismissed after the Justice Department admitted that the $14 million renovation was flawed.<\/p>\n<p>CNN spoke to Hearn\u2019s attorney, the CEO of the company in charge of the pool\u2019s water quality and David Hearn through the saga.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 David Hearn is indicted<br \/>\n0:35 Hearn\u2019s attorney speaks out after the indictment<br \/>\n5:27 \u2018We\u2019ve never done a pool\u2019: CEO in charge of Trump\u2019s reflecting pool<br \/>\n8:01 Olympian David Hearn tells his story to Kaitlan Collins<br \/>\n13:43 How the charges affected Hearn<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#News #reflectingpool #trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as \u201cabsolutely filthy\u201d and vowed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}