TRUTH BE KNOWN: The Justice Department admitted the obvious, that there was no vandalism at the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool and that felony charges against a former Olympic canoeist will be dropped.

  Federal prosecutors said yesterday that the contractors hired by the Trump administration had botched the renovation of the pool, leading to a failure of the new blue bottom coating, and that the Interior Department had falsely blamed the damage on vandals.

  The US attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro, said she would seek dismissal of the charge against David Hearn, who was accused of pulling up a piece of the pool’s lining. Hearn had always said he merely felt a piece of lining that had floated up.