\u201cI disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a> Saturday afternoon, less than a day after Pirro admitted in a court filing<\/a> that damage to a recently installed pool liner was \u201cthe result of flawed installation by the contractor.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what she was thinking?\u201d Trump added. \u201cTo me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned in giant letters on it, and other elements of the surrounding area.\u201d <\/p>\n Friday, Pirro moved to dismiss<\/a> the felony destruction of property charge against David Hearn and indicated the Interior Department misled her office into accusing Hearn of damaging the pool liner. <\/p>\n Instead, she said, the company contracted to do the refurbishment quickly had poorly installed the new liner, which started peeling after installation.<\/p>\n Pirro\u2019s admission was not only a complete contradiction of her and President Donald Trump\u2019s previous assertions, but it\u2019s just the latest in a string of high-profile losses \u2013 leading to scrutiny online. <\/p>\n Mark Zaid, an attorney who focuses on national security cases, called the situation \u201cabsolutely embarrassing\u201d<\/a> for Pirro, adding: \u201cI trust at least a public apology is forthcoming to all of those adversely affected by these frivolous prosecutions.\u201d<\/p>\n Norman Ornstein,<\/a> a political scientist at a conservative think tank, wrote on X: \u201cShe is utterly culpable and should be removed and disbarred.\u201d <\/p>\n Ron Filipkowski, an attorney and editor of MediasTouch, also called for Pirro to be disbarred,<\/a> saying, \u201cIt is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n Conservative political commentator Scott Jennings criticized the administration\u2019s faulty evidence in the case, agreeing that Hearn is \u201cowed an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe administration looks like a monkey having intimate relations with a football,\u201d Jennings told CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Source\u201d<\/a> Friday evening.<\/p>\n Jennings added: \u201c[Hearn] ought to sue anybody that he thinks he can to get his name back.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked for comment on criticism, a spokesperson for Pirro’s office said: \u201cThe filing speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Pirro brought a one-count felony indictment against Hearn for deliberately destroying property after the administration accused him of \u201cviolently\u201d pulling up on the newly installed Reflecting Pool liner. <\/a><\/p>\n While announcing the indictment, Pirro had fervently pushed back on skepticism that Hearn destroyed the pool liner. Hearn had denied the government\u2019s accusations and insisted the pool was damaged when he visited it. <\/p>\n But Pirro\u2019s assertion aligned with Trump\u2019s claim that multiple people vandalized the Reflecting Pool \u2013 which the president had ordered his administration to quickly refurbish to try and get rid of the blooming algae on the surface.<\/p>\n However, algae returned shortly after the pool was re-sealed and a liner was installed. The new sealant also started to peel off in chunks that bubbled to the surface.<\/a><\/p>\n In Friday\u2019s court filing, Pirro said her team was misled by the Interior Department, which allegedly misrepresented that \u201cnearly all of the damage\u201d to the pool was due to vandals when it was the result of faulty installation.<\/p>\n Pirro blamed the peeling of the pool\u2019s lining on rushed repairs completed by a first-time government contractor that received a no-bid contract.<\/p>\n Though Pirro has seemingly blamed the Interior Department for not providing all the information, people online still held her accountable. <\/p>\n Gretchen Carlson,<\/a> a former Fox News host, called Pirro\u2019s reversal \u201cunbelievable\u201d and \u201cdisgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n Marc Scaringi<\/a>, an attorney who represented Trump\u2019s campaign in 2020, said it was \u201cstunning how easily and brazenly Jeanine Pirro, President Trump, and other Trump Administration officials lie\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe blatant lies, political prosecutions, and lawfare coming from the Trump DOJ must stop,\u201d Scaringi wrote on X. <\/p>\n Pirro\u2019s office has previously failed to secure prosecutions against individuals that the Trump administration had targeted. <\/p>\n Last year, Pirro failed to persuade three separate grand juries to indict a woman on felony charges for assaulting an FBI agent during an anti-ICE protest. Once Pirro reduced the charges to a misdemeanor, a jury still refused to find the woman guilty. <\/a><\/p>\n The U.S. Attorney for D.C. also failed to secure grand jury indictments for a person accused of making threats against an official as well as a man accused of physically resisting arrest. <\/p>\n Notably, a jury declined<\/a> to charge a man who flung a sub-style sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133721,49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-723171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-domestic-politics","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"On](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2286640030...jpeg\")
On social media, people accused US Attorney Jeanine Pirro of recklessly bringing a criminal indictment against a man who did not damage the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-07-18T133105Z_517602343_RC2CGMAG2AIG_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-REFLECTINGPOOL.JPG\")
Trump ordered his administration to fix the Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued by problems for years (Reuters)<\/p>\n![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-07-09T145409Z_1712045546_RC2EAMAMIRH2_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-REFLECTINGPOOL.JPG\")
David Hearn, the former Olympian briefly indicted by the Trump administration, had denied Pirro\u2019s accusations and pleaded not guilty to charges before Pirro moved to dismiss the case Friday (Reuters)<\/p>\n