Trump Hammers Pirro’s Office In Wild Screed On Reflecting Pool, Cites ‘Inspiring Jesse Watters’ As His Evidence

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President Donald Trump fumed at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, led by his close ally and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, in a wild screed on Monday.

Over the summer, Trump raged at Pirro for dropping the case against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, alleging that he somehow vandalized the Reflecting Pool following a renovation spearheaded by Trump. Pirro’s office dropped the case for lack of evidence and acknowledged the damage to the pool “was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI.”

“Jeanine Pirro made a mistake,” Trump declared in early August in the Oval Office, going so far as to say Pirro “folded like an umbrella.” A judge later permanently dismissed the case, barring Pirro’s office from attempting to retry it.

Trump revisited those claims in a Truth Social post, writing, “Washington’s beautiful Reflecting Pool, which was badly damaged by Vandals despite the ridiculous writings of some Radical Left person in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office who got it wrong and obviously didn’t investigate, witness, or see the attached tape, or the very inspiring Jesse Watters show which explained it all.”

Watters and Pirro were longtime colleagues on Fox News’s top-rated show The Five.

The president added that Pirro’s office “didn’t inspect the vast area of cut and slashed pool surface, or the grass that was scarred by poison with the numbers “86 47” massively inscribed in font 90 feet tall and encompassing the width of the entire Park (which grass has been fully replaced with new grass), is now, after repair, 70% filled with water and looking good. Interestingly, the Reflecting Pool has not worked properly since it was built in 1922 — It always leaked! This will be different, but any Vandals that try to prove the point otherwise, will GO TO JAIL! We are watching very closely, and security cameras have been installed. Reports are that it’s looking beautiful, and will only get better, subject to NO VANDALISM, with time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

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