Burgum fires back at Dana Bash on CNN
作者 Flint: David Hearn
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pushed back hard against CNN's Dana Bash when she suggested that Olympic athlete David Hearn should not face serious consequences for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. Bash asked, "Do you REALLY think he should face 10 years? He competed for America!" Burgum replied, "You can be a GOVERNOR, just" and the clip cuts off. The exchange highlights a growing divide over how to handle high-profile figures involved in political protests.
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Ask you about the vandalism. There is an Olympian, David Hearn, who was indicted for vandalism, the maximum sentence is 10 years in prison. He says he didn't do anything other than reach into the reflecting pool and look at and pull out and look at a piece of the liner that had already been cut. Do you really think he should face a 10 year prison sentence for doing this? This is a somebody who competed for America and, you know, did extremely well there and is saying he didn't do anything wrong? You can be a former governor. You can be a former this. You can be a former that. But just because you were a former something doesn't exclude you from the law today. Yeah, that's fair. But he says he didn't do anything to actually hurt it other than pick it up because it was already peeling. He can say what he wants to say. I wasn't there. I was not an eyewitness. I mean, the courts will decide. But I think the law stands. That is a law that exists. And it should BE, AGAIN, IF PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, DAMAGING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, IF PEOPLE ARE DEFAMING OUR MONUMENTS, THEY SHOULD FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT. SO THE COURTS WILL DECIDE. SECRETARY BURGHAM.
