Botched
Jeanine Pirro dropped cases against alleged vandals after realizing the evidence points to "contractor error." Trump isn't happy
It turns out that the president being embarrassed by the shoddy refinishing job his contractors did on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and then pushing an absurd conspiracy theory about box-cutter-wielding criminals to save face isn’t enough to sustain a prosecution (yet).
Over the weekend, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. — headed by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — moved to dismiss its case against former Olympic athlete Davey Hearn. The Justice Department had charged Hearn with felony destruction of property, accusing him of having damaged the pool lining Trump handed a company a no-bid contract to install ahead of the Fourth of July. The government admitted that peeling and damage observed in the liner was, as was obvious to virtually everyone, the result of a “botched installation” and “contractor error.”
Trump was not pleased over losing his intended scapegoat, telling reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that Pirro had “choked” before lashing out at a reporter who asked if he was considering removing her from her post.
