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Donald Trump has been criticizing Jeannie Pirro almost from the moment she announced that her office was dropping criminal charges against former U.S. Olympian David Hearn in a case of alleged "vandalism" at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But yesterday, Trump's words took on a nastier, more personal tone, saying she "choked" and "folded like an umbrella." In fact, Trump's words have become so harsh that some observers speculate that Pirro might get fired for dismissing the case.
Pirro hardly is a sympathetic figure in this matter -- and we will take a closer look at that issue in an upcoming post -- but Trump's scorching criticism says more about him than it does about her. The Associated Press (AP) provides details about the escalating tension between the president and one of his appointees who also has been a longtime friend. Under the headline "Trump says Pirro 'folded like an umbrella' in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges," Will Weissert writes:
President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Speaking at an unrelated Oval Office event, Trump ducked questions about whether he’d fire Pirro, a former Fox News host and longtime ally he handpicked as top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital. But the president kept up his drumbeat of sharp criticism, saying he remained disappointed by her assessment that damage to the Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction, not vandalism.
“Frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question after he signed an executive order for military spouses. “I don’t know what the hell happened.”
Let's take a close look at that last paragraph and see what it says about the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:
* Trump says Pirro "choked." Of the endless supply of incompetent males on his cabinet have you ever heard Trump say that Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, or Marco Rubio "choked." Gee, is our president a misogynist? My conclusion is yes, and that probably will surprise 0.00002 percent of our readers.
* With that out of the way, Trump blames the judge, who he says "was "really vicious" For good measure, Trump is strongly suggesting the judge is corrupt, that he didn't give the Department of Justice a fair shake. Does Trump cite any unlawful ruling the judge made or any procedural standard he violated? Of course not, and that almost certainly is because Trump knows virtually nothing about the law -- and he cares even less about it. The Brennan Center for Justice has spotlighted some of the most blatant and high-profile attacks Trump has made on the judiciary. As for numbers, I can find no official count, but one online estimate is in the "dozens." My guess is that in the "dozens of dozens" would be more accurate.
Pirro's Motion to Dismiss tells the story of how her department came to realize it had no case. It boils down to this:
Work on installing the liner immediately fell behind due to rainy and windy weather, repeated failures of testing on expansion joints, delays in receiving sealing product at the worksite, and the rush to finish the project led to hasty and botched work.
In short, it had nothing to do with vandalism. That Trump still is saying it did is just another sign -- as if we needed more signs -- that our president is a sorry slug of a human being.
At this point, all of us probably could use some humor, and for that, we turn to Jeff Tiedrich, publisher of the "Everybody is Entitled to My Own Opinion" Substack newsletter. I have become a regular reader of Jeff's work, and he invariably makes me laugh while also giving the sense that I am better informed when I finish reading than I was when I started. (Perhaps I should note that Jeff makes ample use of colorful language, including more than a few F-bombs, but he appears to be a devoted and outspoken liberal with a healthy distaste for all things Trump. That's enough to earn high marks from me, and I encourage our Legal Schnauzer readers to check out his page at the link above. I know there are a lot of smart, funny people on the Web, but I can truthfully say I haven't found anyone quite like Jeff.
As for Jeff's piece on the Reflecting Pool, it comes under the headline "Good news, everyone! Grand theft paint chips is no longer a crime." Jeff writes:
Hey folks, are you sitting down right now?
I hope you are, because it turns out that the lying liars who lied to us about Iran’s nuclear program, and lied to us about Venezuelan fishermen, and lied about tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy, and lied about how tariffs work, and lied about the state of the economy, and the crime rate of migrants, and who won the 2020 election, and Dr. Fauci’s role in the pandemic, and Dear Leader’s rotting hands, bloated cankles and deteriorating brain, and every other fucking thing under the sun, have been lying to us about this so-called vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The justice department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging former Olympian David Hearn with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial‘ reflecting pool, instead blaming damage to the pool liner as “the result of flawed installation by the contractor.”
Oh, so no big gash, huh?
Where did it go? Because for weeks on end, the Donnyverse wouldn’t shut the fuck up about how there was this ginormous gash like no one has ever seen, a gash like few thought possible, the gashiest gash that has ever gashed, man.
Did you clock how the DOJ dropped these charges late on Friday evening, hoping that We the People wouldn’t notice? but oh, we noticed.
We fucking well noticed, because we knew all along that this whole thing was bullshit. There was never a gash. there was never any vandalism. What there was, was a typical Donny clusterfuck. He handed a sweetheart no-bid contract to some unqualified and incompetent crony, who so royally screwed the whole thing up that within a matter of days, the entire Reflecting Pool was choked with broken pieces of liner that curious onlookers were gawking at, and picking up.
Yet, how many times did that smug, cow-cosplaying dipsomaniac go on Fox News and smear the good name of Olympian David Hearn, telling the world he was guilty of the heinous crime of Grand Theft Paint Chips?
Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said that her office had received documents from the Department of the Interior only “after the return of the indictment” showing that damage occurred prior to Hearn visiting the reflecting pool and put his hand in the water on 19 June.
How do you fuck that up?
Here’s how you fuck that up: by being so horny to make headlines and get your cockeyed face on TV and please that Audience of One back in the Oval Bordello, that you rush an indictment before all the facts are in.
Pro tip: that’s the opposite of justice.
No one could have predicted that an attention-addicted fake TV judge would be so crap at the job of US Attorney.
Meanwhile, when Preznit Fuckwit caught wind of what Jeanine Pirro was up to, he spontaneously power-loaded an infinite series of diapers.
Donny was so triggered by Jeanine’s perfidy that he and the diaper nurse spent three-and-a-half rage-filled hours yesterday posting no less than 42 times to his crappy app.
Jeff winds things down by making a serious point about the difference between Jeanine Pirro's role in all of this, compared to Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who continue to falsely claim vandalism was involved:
Here’s the thing, though: Donny and Dougie are morons, shitting their stupidity on social media. Jeanine Pirro, however, is an officer of the court, bound by rules of conduct. That makes a huge difference.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to an actual lawyer:
Let's close with a final word from Jeff Tiedrich:
We should never normalize the idea of an entire government weaponizing itself against some innocent person, just because the president is a colicky piss-baby who can never admit culpability for any of his disasters.
What kind of shithole country arrests someone for touching water? What kind of penny-ante fascist prosecutes someone for Grand Theft Paint Chips?
These vile shitweasels owe a huge apology to David Hearn.
They owe a huge apology to all of us.
Oh, and this thing isn’t over. here’s Norm Eisen, one of Hearn’s lawyers.
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