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Over the past few days, the president has continued his crusade against one of the supposed vandals of the Lincoln Memorial\u2019s Reflecting Pool. In a lengthy post on Truth Social on Sunday, he alleged that \u201ca National Park Service career employee, a highly credible witness,\u201d had caught the former Olympic canoeist David Hearn in the act of \u201cripping and tugging at the Pool\u2019s somewhat delicate coating.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem is that the Department of Justice\u2019s case against Hearn is already effectively over. More than a week earlier, federal prosecutors dropped the charges against him, citing information from the Department of the Interior; the damage to the Reflecting Pool was \u201cthe result of a botched installation and not vandalism,\u201d the government\u2019s motion to dismiss reads. That evidence\u2014and the judgment of DOJ\u2014has done little to stop Donald Trump from pursuing this debunked theory over and over again. In recent weeks, the president has repeatedly returned to the same few vendettas and personal obsessions, trying to push them forward no matter the evidence against them. His strategy is summed up by a self-assessment that he gave CNN more than a decade ago: \u201cI am the most fabulous whiner,\u201d he said. \u201cI keep whining and whining until I win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, The Wall Street Journal <\/i>reported that White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider prosecuting Hearn a second time. By doubling down on his vandalism thesis, Trump is sending a strong message to one of his most ardent supporters, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, whom he already castigated last week for dropping the charges. \u201cI guess she choked,\u201d he told reporters at the time.<\/p>\n

The rulings of the Supreme Court don\u2019t seem to sway the president either. On Thursday, he doubled down on another mission of personal importance\u2014limiting birthright citizenship\u2014despite the Court\u2019s recent decision to strike down a previous executive order on the subject. Trump has now issued two new orders that are narrower in scope. One seeks to expand the category of children whom the government can deny automatic citizenship, and the other targets \u201cbirth tourism,\u201d a phenomenon in which people travel to the United States \u201cfor the purpose of giving birth on American soil\u201d\u2014something that the law already prohibits. These new attempts to upend more than a century of precedent are likely to face significant legal challenges. This tactic wasn\u2019t Trump\u2019s only option: Drawing on Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s June opinion, the president could potentially urge Congress to amend a particular statute or enact new legislation to limit birthright citizenship (although this legislation would be unlikely to pass). Instead, he chose to use the same tool in the hope of getting a different result.<\/p>\n

Trump is also forging ahead on his attempts to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Nearly a year ago, the president tried to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud. In June, the Court ruled that she couldn\u2019t be fired, in part because the White House hadn\u2019t given her a chance to contest the allegations. Last week, Trump\u2019s longtime aide Dan Scavino sent Cook a warning her that she may still be removed and telling her in no uncertain terms that \u201cthis is your opportunity to respond.\u201d In this case, Trump appears to be cooperating with the Court, although it\u2019s uncertain whether this procedure will be enough to satisfy it. The note makes clear that the president isn\u2019t letting up in his quest to oust Cook.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tenacity in pursuing his own agenda is nothing new. Take, for example, his eight-year attempt to brand former FBI Director James Comey as a criminal, despite a lack of evidence; when, in the fall, the first set of charges against him didn\u2019t stick, Trump\u2019s Justice Department simply tried again. As David A. Graham wrote in his story last week about the birthright-citizenship orders, the president\u2019s recent actions invoke a kind of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. The commitment to doubling down has become a one-size-fits-all strategy: Trump\u2019s desire to fight back doesn\u2019t necessarily correlate with the odds of victory in a given situation. My colleague Tom Nichols recently noted that the president\u2019s push to prosecute Hearn has only emphasized \u201cjust how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become.\u201d Trump\u2019s fixation on the Reflecting Pool is also directing his focus away from the issues that midterm voters care about most, such as affordability.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, new setbacks are arriving all the time. On Friday, after an appeals court upheld the block on Trump\u2019s attempts to build a new ballroom for the White House, the president promised to make his case to the Supreme Court. That fight, like so many others, is not over until Trump says it is.<\/p>\n

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