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Donald Trump’s Uncle Joe Moment

(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty)IT WAS ALREADY ONE of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration—the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president’s big, beautiful, reflecting pool. It then dropped them for legal reasons that amounted to: We screwed up.But now we learn that Trump can’t let it go. The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is pressuring the DOJ to revisit the case. Wonder if Todd Blanche will “talk the president out of” it. (Just kidding.)This is Trump’s America. Hearn was cycling around the D.C. monuments and stopped to examine the very-much-in-the-news green swamp. The next thing he knew, he was being charged with felony van
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