Lawyers accuse Trump’s DOJ of rushing flawed Reflecting Pool case against ex-Olympian

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed

Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed  AP News

The U.S. Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case against a former Olympian charged with intentionally damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and that he bore no responsibility for longstanding problems at the landmark, defense lawyers said Tuesday.

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed

Pirro’s About-Face in Pool Case Followed Prosecutors’ Private Concerns  WSJ

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped charges related to the Reflecting Pool after determining that the damage to the pool was not vandalism. That was in stark contrast to what she said weeks ago. It follows a pattern of disconnect between what the president and administration officials say in public versus what lawyers

Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface what they called a “politically motivated prosecution” of their client.

The White House Is Standing By Trump’s Most Outrageous Reflecting Pool Claim  HuffPost

David Hearn has ‘number of potential remedies’ after being prosecuted in connection with pool damage, attorney says An attorney for the former Olympic canoeist who was charged with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has said that “all options are on table” for legal recourse after prosecutors recently aba

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro hauled a crate of evidence to the White House Monday evening in a bid to convince President Donald Trump that vandals weren’t responsible for damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump is reportedly considering firing Pirro over the Department of Justice’s admission in court that

US president Donald Trump has accused the US attorney Jeanine Pirro of “folding” after dropping charges against alleged vandals of the Reflecting Pool – but there’s one problem.

President Trump met in the Oval Office on Monday with U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro after Pirro admitted poor installation caused the damage to the D.C. Reflecting Pool, not vandalism. Mr. Trump publicly slammed Pirro for her comments. Nicole Sganga has more.

President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” designed to pay Trump allies would not be resurrected, and that a settlement between Tru

Charges Against Remaining Reflecting Pool Case Defendants Dropped Despite Trump Complaints  forbes.com

Pirro, a former Fox News host and longtime Trump ally, is the top federal prosecutor in Washington.

US President Donald Trump sharply criticised ⁠US Attorney Jeanine Pirro ⁠on Monday for dropping ⁠a case of alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, saying she had “choked” under pressure from a judge and “folded like an umbrella”. “Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge

Atty for Ex-Olympian speaks out after Reflecting Pool vandalism case dropped  CNN

President Donald Trump says US Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump claimed surveillance footage proved the pool's new liner had been vandalized and argued that Jeanine Pirro, a close political ally, should have continued pursuing the case.

Donald Trump lashed out at Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host serving as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, after she moved to dismiss a felony indictment of the alleged vandal of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said that he “was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro.

“I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed in Jeanine Pirro,” he added. “She folded like an umbrella.”

President Donald Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, "choked" and "folded like an umbrella" in the Reflecting Pool case.

Trump blasts Jeanine Pirro, says she 'choked' in dropping reflecting pool case  Reuters

President Trump said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” in her decision to drop charges against U.S. Olympian David Hearn in the Reflecting Pool vandalism case, casting blame on the judge overseeing the case.  “The judge was extremely unfriendly to Jeanine, and frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really

President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro “choked” in deciding to dismiss the indictment of a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “I think she choked because the judge was really vicious,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Of

The case against David Hearn is only the latest reminder of the grand jury’s institutional significance in Donald Trump’s second term.

President Donald Trump criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Saturday for dismissing a vandalism case linked to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.