Day 15 · Reflecting Pool Prosecution Fight

Jeanine Pirro Charges Reflecting Pool Suspect

Trump denounced alleged WWII Memorial vandals as Jeanine Pirro announced DC charges.

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Updated Aug 14, 5:54pm ET

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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro convened a rare special grand jury in Washington after Trump publicly criticized her office for dropping a felony Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn. About 90 lawyers, retired judges and other legal figures filed a disciplinary complaint against Pirro over the Hearn case and seven other prosecutions. Hearn’s lawyers asked a court to bar any revived charges, while Pirro separately charged Melissa Farris, 41, with two federal felonies over spray-painted graffiti at the World War II Memorial on Aug. 13.

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Politicized prosecutionMostly Left

Trump and Pirro used the justice system for political retaliation and loyalty politics after the Reflecting Pool vandalism incident. The prosecutions and grand-jury maneuvers were illegitimate, legally weak efforts to satisfy Trump rather than a good-faith pursuit of justice.

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