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Blanche warned 'bizarrely fixated' Trump posts spell peril: 'Tell me that risk isn't real'

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Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is being handed a massive headache in his new job due to President Donald Trump's latest pet project, according to a new analysis. Blanche, who is expected to have his hands full defending the current administration's policies that are facing an avalanche of lawsuits, will also have to clean up the mess over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool prosecutions. According to Slate's Shrin Ali, Trump's pool "obsession" has now become Blanche's problem. In her "Executive Dysfunction" newsletter, Ali argued that the president is "bizarrely fixated" on prosecuting 67-year-old former Olympian David Hearn for "vandalizing" the Reflecting Pool, despite U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro having already dropped the case. White House officials have asked the DOJ to consider a new prosecution of Hearn, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, which noted that such a move would be "highly unusual." "It seems Trump has renewed faith in hi