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Jeanine Pirro Drops Reflecting Pool Case, Now Blames The Contractor
['Conover Kennard']
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Donald J. Trump's top federal prosecutor in D.C. has pulled the plug on the criminal case against David Hearn, the 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The dismissal undercuts Trump's own claim that "radical" vandals wrecked the pool — Pirro's own filing points instead to shoddy contractor work and the Interior Department withholding information from her office.
It comes just a week after a judge warned the administration it was "operating at its own peril" pursuing the case.
Still, a grand jury witness reportedly couldn't pin any actual financial loss on Hearn and conceded repairs were needed before he ever touched the pool.
Jeanine Pirro just took another L.Recent flashback:this Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy.