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Matt Viser
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Staff writer @TheAtlantic | Formerly @washingtonpost @BostonGlobe | Email: [email protected] | Signal: mattviser.95 | IG: matt.viser | Always up for coffee
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    Matt Viser
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    7h
    In a Trump administration that’s been largely in lockstep (at least publicly), one of the biggest ruptures to date has emerged — and it’s over a shallow body of water and who can be blamed for the peeling sealant on its base.
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    Matt Viser
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    President Trump weighs in on the Reflecting Pool case, criticizing Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the charges and continuing to claim, without evidence and now in disagreement with his own DOJ, that damages were caused by vandalism.
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    Matt Viser
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    Last year’s emblem of prosecutorial overreach was the Sandwich Guy. This year’s? The Canoe Guy. My look at Davey Hearn, the Olympian who was targeted by the DOJ — until the case was suddenly dropped late yesterday when prosecutors said he wasn’t at fault:
    theatlantic.com
    The Canoeist Accused of Destroying the Reflecting Pool
    The Olympian has become the latest emblem of possible prosecutorial overreach.
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    Matt Viser
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    Aug 1
    Taken as a whole, the court filing acknowledged what has been obvious to anyone who has spent time at the Reflecting Pool in recent weeks and watched the president’s $16.4 million project deteriorate in full view.
    How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart
    From theatlantic.com
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    Matt Viser
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    Aug 1
    In a striking 19-page legal document filed late this afternoon, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro undermined everything that President Trump has been saying about the damage to the Reflecting Pool for the past six weeks. My latest on this DC summer scandal:
    Another Trump Case Falls Apart
    From theatlantic.com
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