c/politics · by MicroWave@lemmy.world · 22d

Trump says Pirro 'folded like an umbrella' in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges

https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-pirro-vandalism-criticism-c7aabcf59e87651dd7be0b322b5460b1

Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Speaking at an unrelated Oval Office event, Trump ducked questions about whether he’d fire Pirro, a former Fox News host and longtime ally he handpicked as top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital. But the president kept up his drumbeat of sharp criticism, saying he remained disappointed by her assessment that damage to the Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction, not vandalism.

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BioDriver@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 22d (4 replies)

Yeah how dare she….. review the evidence and make sound judgement for once in her life

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 22d (1 reply)

I don’t think we can say this was sound judgement. She took it way too far to begin with, so now it’s hilariously embarrassing.

(Also they destroyed evidence… which is laughable.)

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 22d

She took it way too far to begin with.

Of course she did. The accusations made big headlines. The dismissal, if it makes headlines at all, will be much smaller.

Propaganda!

aarch0x40@piefed.social · 16 pts · 22d

Obviously, she should have faked some and filed additional charges.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21d

Don't misunderstand, she's as black inside as he is. This is self preservation, lying to the court like this has serious ramifications for people working with the law. She could have lost everything.

arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 22d (1 reply)

how telling it is that so many of his appointees are former fox hosts. he thinks they're qualified to do these jobs because they're the only people he's ever heard talk about these topics in a way that seems authoritative. that's the level of political discourse that the president engages in

artyom@piefed.social · 34 pts · 22d

The only qualification he cares about is the willingness to worship him.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 22d (2 replies)

Odd choice of words for a guy who doesn't know how to close an umbrella.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 22d

Yes… someone should play dumb and ask him to demonstrate how an umbrella folds.

“So are you saying she was discarded outside the airplane because she wouldn’t fold to your demands?”

PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 22d

Not really, TACO knows all about folding.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 22d (1 reply)

So Trump wanted to legally harass and potentially imprison an innocent man in a vain attempt to not look like an incompetent asshole.

Typical.

Curious_Canid@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 21d

That's is an excellent summary.

I suspect most of what he does ends with with the phrase "in a vain attempt to not look like an incompetent asshole".

wagesj45@fedia.io · 25 pts · 22d (4 replies)

How humiliating it must be to work for this man.

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 24 pts · 22d (2 replies)

Nobody forces them to.

wagesj45@fedia.io · 10 pts · 22d

Double humiliating.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 22d

Well, not until they get the mass labor camps going.

hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 22d

Are they capable of shame?

nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 22d

President Pedophile unintentionally using his Barbara Streisand powers to keep this story alive after U.S. Attorney Drunk attempted a minimalist news dump on a Friday evening.

modernangel@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 22d

pedo says what

Drusas@fedia.io · 13 pts · 22d (4 replies)

This is because it embarrasses him, so he has to dig in no matter how wrong he might be.

Edit: voice to text sucks

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 22d (3 replies)