Donald Trump unloaded on Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro after she moved to drop charges against a former Olympian who the president accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool despite his administration failing to produce evidence against him.“I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” he said from the Oval Office on Monday. “She folded like an umbrella.”The president said she “choked” and blamed the judge overseeing the case.“I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious,” he said. “Instead of going after the people who did it, he went after her, and went after her department, and I guess she choked. I don’t know what the hell happened.”Pirro filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against David Hearn on Friday after the Trump administration admitted that damage to the landmark’s recently installed blue liner was “the result of flawed installation by the contractor.”Donald Trump unloaded on US Attorney for Washington DC Jeanine Pirro in front of reporters inside the Oval Office on August 3 after her office moved to drop charges against a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool despite no evidence supporting the claims (Getty)The president is reportedly furious with Pirro and mulling whether to fire her from the Department of Justice, according to CNN.Asked whether he will reconsider her role as U.S. Attorney in D.C, Trump told a reporter “you’re fake news” and “don’t ever talk again.” Hearn pleaded not guilty to one felony count of destruction of property earlier this month.Pirro had previously lambasted Hearn in a press conference on July 2, claiming he “woefully destroyed property” in a “deliberate act” to damage the monument by “forcefully and violently” pulling the pool’s lining.Friday’s court filing, however, states that the recently applied blue sealant at the bottom of the pool started to peel “almost immediately” after the work was completed following renovations to the site last month.The Department of Interior “provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case,” according to the filing from Pirro’s office.It was not until after the indictment was filed that the agency determined that the “damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” the filing states.Trump initially said a refurbishing project for the 2,030-foot pool could be done quickly for $1.5 million in time for White House-backed Fourth of July celebrations.His administration has now spent nearly $14.7 million, with all funds directed to Atlantic Industrial Coatings LLC, Virginia, according to federal spending records. The administration bypassed a typical competitive bid process and gave the company a no-bid contract by arguing that the need for renovations was so urgent that any delays would cause “serious injury” to the government, though it remains unclear what that “injury” entails.Trump has spent weeks insisting that vandals used box cutters to damage what he has called “American flag blue” paint on the pool’s lining, which was peeling off in chips that bubbled to the surface days after the pool was refilled.“Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism,” Trump said Monday. “We have photographs or tapes, like moving cameras, right? Where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife. Now, I’m not saying I was 100 percent thrilled with the contractor, but the contractor was rushing. We wanted to get it open for July 4th, and we got it done. But, in addition, there was vandalism.”This is a developing story
Trump says Pirro ‘choked’ and ‘folded like an umbrella’ in Reflecting Pool case
The president is reportedly considering firing DC’s top prosecutor after court filings blamed his administration for damage











