{"id":29267,"date":"2026-08-04T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=29267"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:50:39","slug":"reflecting-fools-dropped-ginned-up-charges-lead-to-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/04\/reflecting-fools-dropped-ginned-up-charges-lead-to-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Fools: Dropped, ginned-up charges lead to schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mess isn&#8217;t going away!<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/03\/trump-made-reflecting-pool-test-his-power-it-backfired\/\">How Trump\u2019s claims of vandalism at the renovated Reflecting Pool crumbled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irish Star: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/news\/us-news\/jeanine-pirro-sparks-mystery-hours-37511743\">Jeanine Pirro sparks mystery as she leaves White House with huge box hours after Trump&#8217;s diss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/crime\/trump-doj-drops-charges-against-three-more-defendants-accused-of-reflecting-pool-vandalism-but-one-lost-his-job\/\">Trump DOJ Drops Charges Against Three More Defendants Accused of Reflecting Pool Vandalism \u2014 But One Lost His Job<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/reflecting-pool-vandalism\/\">Collapsed Trump case debacle may backfire as target handed &#8216;very strong claim&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media Matters: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/reflecting-fool-how-jesse-watters-helped-push-trumps-bogus-vandalism-story\">Reflecting Fool! Jesse Watters helped push Trump&#8217;s bogus vandalism story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mess isn&#8217;t going away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}