The man-child running the United States hired one of his corrupt mafiosi friends to line the bottom of the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial with a blue color lining, without going through the legal bidding process.
His mafioso friend did the job with cheap substandard material which began cracking and peeling within barely a week of its installation. The substandard material also turned out to be food for an invasive type of algae, and the Reflecting Pool became like more like a disgusting murky pond.
The dumbass criminal in the White Outhouse wouldn't accept responsibility for hiring a sleazy shady business. So he had his private police arrest a couple of tourists who happen to be around the pool and witnessed the cracks, and demanded that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, his own MAGA lowlife Jeanine Pirro, prosecute those tourists for "vandalism".
Obviously, however lowlife and sleazy is the Jeanine Pirro might be, she could not successfully blame the tourists for what Trump and his jackass friend did to the pool. She had no evidence whatsoever.
So she announces she is dropping the case against the tourists. Imagine, Pirro is a very devout MAGA imbecile who kisses the ground on which Trump walks. And now her Mafia MAGA boss is angry at her for dropping the case.
It really doesn't get any worse than this.
This is how this criminal felon is allowed to run the country, make money over the backs of the American people by cheating, wage wars and kill thousands of people.
By the way, Pirro is of Lebanese descent, which explains in part her atavistic corruption and her tendency to follow dictators and strongmen.
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Trump doesn’t fire Pirro at White House meeting hours after saying she ‘choked’ over Reflecting Pool case
Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, CNN
Tue, August 4, 2026
US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on April 27. - Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
President Donald Trump, who has said US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro "choked" over the Reflecting Pool vandalism case, did not fire his longtime ally during an afternoon White House meeting, nor did she offer her resignation, multiple sources told CNN.
Trump had been considering removing her after the Justice Department concluded that the problems with the pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN earlier Monday. The president spent the weekend fuming about that decision, one of the sources said, noting he has been "furious" with Pirro — frustration he later voiced publicly in the Oval Office.
"I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed in Jeanine Pirro," he told reporters at unrelated event. "She folded like an umbrella."
Later that afternoon, Trump met at the White House with both Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a person familiar with the meeting told CNN. Others were also present at the meeting.
The Reflecting Pool case has put the two Trump appointees at odds in recent days. In a court filing last week, Pirro's office directly blamed other federal agencies, including the Interior Department, for not being forthcoming with information about the bungled renovation. Burgum, meanwhile, has stood by Trump's allegations of vandalism.
The Justice Department acknowledged in its Friday court filing that the president's $14 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool was "hasty and botched" and said it was dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the landmark.
Part of Trump's anger over the filing was that it "blindsided" him, a senior administration official said. "The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that," they said.
CNN reached out to Pirro's office and the Justice Department for comment about Trump considering removing her. The White House directed CNN to the president's prior comments on the filing and did not comment on the substance of that reporting.
However, Trump made his displeasure with Pirro, a former Fox News host, known on Monday.
"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 told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump and Pirro also spoke by phone on Saturday about the court filing. Their conversation "wasn't pretty," said one of the sources, who was read out on the call.
Pirro told Trump it was the career officials in her office that were responsible for the filing, another source said. A longtime prosecutor who oversees prosecutions in DC Superior Court signed the court filing asking to dismiss the case on Friday.
In addition to the Saturday call, Pirro has spoken with Trump multiple times about the situation.
Trump on Saturday publicly criticized the move, posting to Truth Social: "I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don't know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM."
Pirro argued in her filing that the Department of Interior "provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case."
"Had DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment," it read.
Despite those accusations, the president has not been angry with Burgum, the sources said, and he continues to believe that vandals are responsible for the damage to the Reflecting Pool. Burgum dismissed Pirro's argument in a social media post on Saturday, saying, "The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool."
However, internal communications CNN received through FOIA requests between the National Park Service — which oversaw the project under the Department of Interior — and DC Water from March through last month make no mention of any vandalism as the department was planning to drain the pool.
Trump had said the pool would need to be drained to make repairs caused by the alleged vandalism — yet an email from NPS acknowledged as early as July 1 that the pool would need to be drained due to algae. The agency also weighed whether to dye the pool water; in the past, the water has been dyed black to help reflect better.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have dropped cases against three more individuals previously charged with destruction of property at the Reflecting Pool, according to DC court filings. The three faced fines up to $1,000 and a maximum of 180 days behind bars.
Hearn, who previously pleaded not guilty to the felony charge in DC's Superior Court, has legal options that could unearth more embarrassing details on how his case was handled. The judge hasn't officially dismissed Hearn's charges as of Monday afternoon, and his lawyers are expected to file a response to Pirro's request to dismiss the case this week.
"Nothing is off the table," said Michael R. Bromwich, an attorney representing Hearn.
Among his options: referring the prosecutors involved to a bar disciplinary authority; asking inspectors general to look at the conduct of the Justice Department and Interior Department; filing lawsuits; seeking more of the grand jury record documenting the prosecutors' presentation of the indictment; and asking the judge to dismiss the case so it cannot be brought again. Pirro's office has so far sought only to dismiss Hearn's charge without prejudice, meaning prosecutors wouldn't be barred from attempting to revive the case later.
This headline and story have been updated with additional reporting.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz, Sunlen Serfaty, Casey Tolan, Kevin Liptak and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn contributed to this report.
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Trump doesn’t fire Pirro at White House meeting hours after saying she ‘choked’ over Reflecting Pool case
Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, CNN
Tue, August 4, 2026
US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on April 27. - Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
President Donald Trump, who has said US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro "choked" over the Reflecting Pool vandalism case, did not fire his longtime ally during an afternoon White House meeting, nor did she offer her resignation, multiple sources told CNN.
Trump had been considering removing her after the Justice Department concluded that the problems with the pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN earlier Monday. The president spent the weekend fuming about that decision, one of the sources said, noting he has been "furious" with Pirro — frustration he later voiced publicly in the Oval Office.
"I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed in Jeanine Pirro," he told reporters at unrelated event. "She folded like an umbrella."
Later that afternoon, Trump met at the White House with both Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a person familiar with the meeting told CNN. Others were also present at the meeting.
The Reflecting Pool case has put the two Trump appointees at odds in recent days. In a court filing last week, Pirro's office directly blamed other federal agencies, including the Interior Department, for not being forthcoming with information about the bungled renovation. Burgum, meanwhile, has stood by Trump's allegations of vandalism.
The Justice Department acknowledged in its Friday court filing that the president's $14 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool was "hasty and botched" and said it was dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the landmark.
Part of Trump's anger over the filing was that it "blindsided" him, a senior administration official said. "The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that," they said.
CNN reached out to Pirro's office and the Justice Department for comment about Trump considering removing her. The White House directed CNN to the president's prior comments on the filing and did not comment on the substance of that reporting.
However, Trump made his displeasure with Pirro, a former Fox News host, known on Monday.
"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 told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump and Pirro also spoke by phone on Saturday about the court filing. Their conversation "wasn't pretty," said one of the sources, who was read out on the call.
Pirro told Trump it was the career officials in her office that were responsible for the filing, another source said. A longtime prosecutor who oversees prosecutions in DC Superior Court signed the court filing asking to dismiss the case on Friday.
In addition to the Saturday call, Pirro has spoken with Trump multiple times about the situation.
Trump on Saturday publicly criticized the move, posting to Truth Social: "I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don't know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM."
Pirro argued in her filing that the Department of Interior "provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case."
"Had DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment," it read.
Despite those accusations, the president has not been angry with Burgum, the sources said, and he continues to believe that vandals are responsible for the damage to the Reflecting Pool. Burgum dismissed Pirro's argument in a social media post on Saturday, saying, "The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool."
However, internal communications CNN received through FOIA requests between the National Park Service — which oversaw the project under the Department of Interior — and DC Water from March through last month make no mention of any vandalism as the department was planning to drain the pool.
Trump had said the pool would need to be drained to make repairs caused by the alleged vandalism — yet an email from NPS acknowledged as early as July 1 that the pool would need to be drained due to algae. The agency also weighed whether to dye the pool water; in the past, the water has been dyed black to help reflect better.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have dropped cases against three more individuals previously charged with destruction of property at the Reflecting Pool, according to DC court filings. The three faced fines up to $1,000 and a maximum of 180 days behind bars.
Hearn, who previously pleaded not guilty to the felony charge in DC's Superior Court, has legal options that could unearth more embarrassing details on how his case was handled. The judge hasn't officially dismissed Hearn's charges as of Monday afternoon, and his lawyers are expected to file a response to Pirro's request to dismiss the case this week.
"Nothing is off the table," said Michael R. Bromwich, an attorney representing Hearn.
Among his options: referring the prosecutors involved to a bar disciplinary authority; asking inspectors general to look at the conduct of the Justice Department and Interior Department; filing lawsuits; seeking more of the grand jury record documenting the prosecutors' presentation of the indictment; and asking the judge to dismiss the case so it cannot be brought again. Pirro's office has so far sought only to dismiss Hearn's charge without prejudice, meaning prosecutors wouldn't be barred from attempting to revive the case later.
This headline and story have been updated with additional reporting.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz, Sunlen Serfaty, Casey Tolan, Kevin Liptak and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn contributed to this report.
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=============================================A British-American woman arrested and accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this summer, only for the charges to be dropped, has said she felt "publicly humiliated" by her ordeal.
The Department of Justice abandoned its misdemeanor charges against Dr Sophie Dennison-Gibby, Justin Carreno and Cameron Thiers last week, as well as a felony charge against Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
The DOJ conceded in court filings that poor workmanship, not sabotage, was to blame for the loose scraps of liner seen bobbing in the water.
Speaking publicly for the first time to The Washington Post, Dennison-Gibby, a veterinarian originally from Portsmouth, England but a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2014, recounted the circumstances of her arrest on June 20.
She said she had been standing beside the famous landmark in Washington, D.C., when she noticed what she assumed was a piece of trash floating in the water and bent down to pick it out, explaining that she is fanatical about litter-picking. It turned out to be a remnant of the pool's peeling liner that had come free.
Dennison-Gibby said she was then approached by a U.S. marshal, who told her: "Well, I wish you hadn't done that. Now I'm going to arrest you."
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the subject of a $14.7 million makeover this summer, under orders from President Donald Trump, that has been hit by repeated setbacks (Reuters)
The officer handcuffed her arms behind her back and led her away, as other members of law enforcement surrounded them.
"That's when things got really scary," she told The Post, explaining that she had not known where she was being taken or for how long she might be detained.
The answer turned out to be a Park Police facility in Southwest Washington, where she was processed and fingerprinted before being released later that day.
Hearn has offered a similar account of his own arrest, telling the Post he had been passing by the pool on a bicycle when he saw an "already peeling piece" of what turned out to be the liner and reached into the water to retrieve it so that he could examine it.
The decision by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, to dismiss the indictments Friday was met with fury by President Donald Trump, who lambasted her in the Oval Office Monday by saying she had "choked" and "folded like an umbrella."
He has so far refrained from firing Pirro but has reportedly held several tense private meetings with her and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in recent days.
Asked about Trump's insistence that politically-motivated vandals are to blame for the setbacks to his makeover of the pool – which cost $14.7 million but saw it turn green with algae as soon as it was refilled – Dennison-Gibby said she had felt nauseous when she heard his comments.
"To be called out by the most powerful person in the world, the president of the United States, and called a sick, violent vandal when all I had done was pick up a piece of trash was awful," she told The Post.
"The whole experience has just been so heartbreaking. I chose this country. I've been naturalized here for 12 years. Nothing about this feels good."
Although she admitted she felt humiliated by her arrest, Dennison-Gibby said she was more concerned about the impact the episode could have on her 10-year-old daughter.
The pool has seen enhanced security brought in since Trump insisted that politically-motivated vandals were responsible for the problems that have beset it (AFP/Getty)
Relieved to see the charges against her dropped – which could have seen her fined $1,000 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, had she been convicted – Dennison-Gibby told the newspaper she remains unnerved by the experience.
Earlier this week, her attorney Jamison Koehler told NPR his client was also found to have trash in her possession when she was arrested, as well as the piece of liner.
"Of course, the government doesn't mention the fact that in addition to finding the pieces of the Reflecting Pool in her purse, they also found trash," he said. "Because the trash didn't fit with their narrative."
Koehler claimed that prosecutors "had no interest" in receiving witness statements or video when he attempted to pass them over.
"She's been fingerprinted, she's been photographed," he said. "She has a mug shot. She's in the FBI database… She's horrified and petrified."
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