Trump's Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him

You'd be forgiven for thinking the saga involving Donald Trump's vile prosecutions of innocent people over his Reflecting Pool fiasco has finally come to an ignominious end. On Thursday, a judge officially threw out felony charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, who'd been falsely accused by Trump of vandalizing his disastrous renovation of the landmark.

Not long after, Hearn projected an air of resolution by going on CNN. Asked if he had any "final message" for the president, Hearn criticized Trump for wrongly accusing him and added: "Leaders don't do that."

But this is not the final chapter in this story—not by a long shot.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are set to launch an investigation into the decision to criminally charge Hearn and others over the Reflecting Pool fiasco, I'm told.

"Judiciary Democrats will investigate who lied, who buried the evidence, and who decided to threaten an American citizen with prison simply to protect Trump's wounded feelings and continuing corruption," Raskin said in a statement to me. "Participants in this frame-up will be held to account."

Eisen confirmed to me that the push for those grand jury materials will now continue, despite Hearn's exoneration. That's because the court dismissed the case without prejudice—so prosecutors can theoretically revive the charges later. Getting those materials will hopefully persuade the court to rule that prosecutors cannot bring back this case, Eisen said, because they will "reflect on whether prosecutors were candid with the grand jury."