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August 04, 2026

Panzie Pirro

Timothy Birdnow

Yep - Jeanine Pirro is going native. She's dropped charges of vandalism against three more people in regards to the D.C. reflecting pool vandalism cases.

She did so AFTER Trump blasted her for dropping charges against the former Olympic slalom canoeist David Hearn.

In the Hearn case there was ample evidence he attempted to damage the pool - a park police officer testified to that fact. Enough that a grand jury indicted him. Pirro dropped the charges when she looked at the pool sans water (we all know she's dabbles in pool engineering on the side) and determined the pool was faulty and so the vandalism was immaterial. Funny; try throwing rocks at a cop car and see if you get off the hook, even if you miss.

At any rate Pirro appears to be morphing into another weenie who is unwilling to enforce the law because she doesn't want a fight on her hands.

This breaks my heart; I had thought she was tough and would do the right thing.

The article states:

"When he was arrested in June, local independent journalist Emily Miller appeared to catch his arrest on camera. She shared the clip on X, saying he was vandalizing the pool and tried to impede workers cleaning the pool by "grabb[ing] the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae.” It is unclear if this claim was even presented to the grand jury that returned an indictment. Miller further said in June that a man was arrested after jumping into the pool today and cutting out a "huge piece” of the sealant.

However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the Justice Department dropped the charges against Hearn on Friday. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who previously accused Hearn of "violently and forcefully” ripping up the sealant, claimed on Friday that "flawed installation by the contractor” was responsible for the damage.

"It was not until after the return of the indictment [of Hearn], that the [Department of Interior] provided additional documents to the [US Attorney’s Office in DC] indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026,” Pirro’s office wrote in the filing.

Trump lashed out at Pirro on Saturday morning, slamming her for dismissing the case. Likewise, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also blasted Pirro’s office, pushing back on its claim that his department misled prosecutors. "The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool,” Burgum wrote.

If a person conspires to murder their business partner, say, they still get charged and convicted even if the plot was unsuccessful. Heck; if you are involved in any way in a murder you are charged with murder. It doesn't matter if the home security was flawed. Pirro's argument is, essentially, that the home security system was poorly installed so the murderers aren't at fault, the security company is.

I am unsure why Pirro is doing this. She may fear an acquittal, but so what? Her job isn't to wait until she has absolute proof before charging. She submitted it to a grand jury and they recommended charges. That's the way it works. It's now her job to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the charges are valid.

I don't know what it is about D.C.; there seems to be something in the water there that sucks the spine right out of Republicans.

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