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I was under the impression there was ample visual evidence that the pool installation was clearly botched prior to the arrest of this Olympic athlete.
Therefore, I'm inclined to believe there's something disingenuous about this response from the DOJ:
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
If the above assumption is true, I wonder if the Olympic athlete can file a legal complaint against the DOJ.
What happened is that they needed to admit the job was botched in order to make an insurance claim. The company which manufacrures the coating also seemed to be getting ready to start lobbing legal grenades
I was willing to believe the installation was botched until the Trump Administration said so. Now I'm convinced the installation was just overpriced, and the damage was done by Trump driving his motorcade down the middle before it was fully cured.
Driving an armored motorcade through it sure didn’t help, and the installation of lining doesn’t even address leakage or any issues with the pool anyway, just handing money to friends.
They used a fucking spray on truck bed liner…
It's a similar, but different different coating from the bedliner stuff, meant for chemical storage tanks. The problem is that it can't be done in sections because it doesn't adhere to itself once it skins over.
Greenwater is as much a joke as whoever gave him the no-bid contract. Bed liner is ridiculous I didn’t even know that bit. There a source I can throw at people?
Can't tell if you're joking or not
Dig it but seriously no joke.
Jfc...
And then when blame time comes, throwing those friends under the motorcade.
Nah he rehired the same guy to redo it and for other projects around the district unfortunately.
And arresting someone several days after pieces were filmed floating in the water, and only dropping it when the masses wouldn’t blindly follow? That’s icing on the ‘we know what caused it’ cake.
The DOJ lawyers could be liable personally for sanctions if it turns out they already "knew" this information at the time they were presenting the case to the grand jury. Therefore the official story has to be that they didn't "know."
Sanctions could include things like monetary fines, referral to bar association discipline, and so forth. In the Chicago 6 case, the defendants were awarded their attorneys' fees as a sanction after grand jury misconduct.
The only people that vandalized it was Trump and his motorcade when they drove through the pool when it was empty.
Probably so. and probably get a fat payout for malicious prosecution, which will be paid out with American taxpayer money, which evidently there is a endless amount of.
They CAN but it won’t go anywhere. I don’t think anyone should expect many big wins against Republican controlled Entities for the next few decades while they are in power