$25k And Trump's Rage: Jeanine Pirro Has Been On Her Last Leg For A WHILE
Jeanine Pirro has struggled left, right, and center to effectively do Trump's bidding after she was appointed to her position for the sole purpose of... doing Trump's bidding.
Former Fox News host turned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is certainly hogging up the limelight and the media cycle in the worst (and, frankly, most hilarious) kind of way these days, after she either grew a spine or dropped the ball — depending on which side of the political fence you wanna look at it from — on the big Reflecting Pool case Trump forced down her throat against a 67-year-old Olympic canoeist.
David Hearn, along with three other people, was accused by Trump and many of his people of “violently” ripping pieces of the Reflecting Pool liner. Hearn, the Olympic canoeist, was subsequently slapped with a felony destruction-of-property charge while the other three individuals were hit with misdemeanor vandalism charges.
The cases worked their way up to Pirro in her fancy new position, where she tossed out every single one of them, admitting in her court filing that the real cause of the Reflecting Pool damage was a “botched” and “flawed installation.” As you can imagine, this absolutely humiliated Donald Trump, and he’s been gunning for her jugular and her job ever since, telling reporters at the White House earlier this week that Pirro, “folded like an umbrella,” as inside sources tell CNN that the president has been brutally “furious” with the former Fox News host, revealing that a phone call between the pair over the weekend “wasn’t pretty.”
But this is far from the beginning of Jeanine Pirro’s trials and tribulations.
According to a telling new report from the Wall Street Journal, Pirro has been struggling to keep prosecutors on board in her office for a while now, going so far as to offer them $25,000 as a “retention bonus” if they’d sign on for two more years, as Donald Trump has spent pretty much his entire second term thus far dumping his insurmountable rage and repressed childhood trauma on her head over a string of collapsed cases.
The Journal reports:
With a weighty portfolio of cases, Pirro has been working to stabilize her Washington office, which has been depleted by resignations and dismissals since Trump returned to the White House. Last month, Pirro offered prosecutors in her office a $25,000 retention bonus to stay for the next two years, according to people familiar with the matter.
It was clear as crystal the very moment Trump installed Pirro into her new, official position that he absolutely expected her to be nothing short of an unwaveringly loyal lapdog, serving the sole purpose of carrying out all of his many whims and petty vendettas.
Pirro hasn’t been doing a great job of that.
Almost immediately upon his return to the White House in 2024, Trump nearly wiped the US Department of Justice clean out, firing a slew of highly experienced prosecutors simply because they had worked cases against January 6th Capitol rioters, leaving the department to run on not just a skeleton crew, but a skeleton crew that consisted of the weakest and dullest legal minds the DOJ had to offer.
Trump then sent Pirro in as a vehicle for his true goal — punishing his political enemies. But what he had hoped would be a bulldozer really only ended up being a Tonka Truck, at best.
The washed-up Fox News host has struck out left, right, and center in her new gig. As POLITICO recently reported, Pirro has effectively had her ass handed to her in a long string of Trump’s high-priority revenge cases. She lost big before a grand jury when seeking charges against six Democratic lawmakers who openly encouraged members of the United States military to refuse any unlawful orders coming from the Commander in Chief. Then her shot at a recovery was shot to Hell when her probe targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was abandoned before it even really got started, after a federal judge ruled that the subpoenas issued against Powell were nothing more than a pretext meant to pressure him on interest rates — flat-out calling Pirro out for using the court of law to do Donald Trump’s petty bidding.
In fact, Pirro caught brutal losses in multiple Trump-fueled cases as grand juries slapped down politically sensitive cases she attempted to bring to fruition, ranging from anti-ICE protests to the dude who threw a sandwich at National Guard troops.
Kevin Owen, an attorney who represents several of the DC prosecutors who were unceremoniously canned under Donald Trump’s new and improved reign of terror and destruction, said, “There has been a significant strain on both the manpower and the morale of the criminal division… These cases are being brought and they’re falling apart.”
Essentially, Pirro’s “job” is to punish the people Trump tells her to punish, regardless of whether or not the law is actually on her side — meaning a large majority of the cases are nothing short of complete and utter bullshit and the prosecutors in her office simply aren’t interested in trying to prosecute a bunch of nothing cases while under the steady ire, vicious fury, and Big Mac scented breath of Donald J. Trump huffing down their necks.
When it came to the infamous Reflecting Pool case, The Journal reports that career prosecutors had been privately raising their concerns about the validity of the case from the very beginning.
Ultimately, the Interior Department handed over a slew of documents that proved, without a shadow of doubt, that the pool liner had been damaged by a “botched installation,” no more, no less, and Pirro threw her hands up, dropping the case.
According to a senior official who spoke to CNN on the matter, “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.”
Following the news of Pirro’s decision, Americans quickly learned of Pirro’s mad dash to the White House (thanks to CBS News) with a big ole box of evidence in tow, where she desperately attempted to defend herself to the viciously pissed off president, placing all of the blame solely on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who she says withheld critical information from her until it was too late.
CNN further reports that Pirro told Trump it was “the career officials in her office that were responsible for the filing.”
It’s those same prosecutors that she’s now trying to bribe into staying in their jobs at her office with a “retention bonus” of $25k each.
Trump has not fired her, as of yet, but he’s made it painfully clear that it’s certainly not off the table.
An attorney for David Hearn — the former Olympian who was slammed with a felony charge for picking up a piece of paint from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — Michael Bromwich, has made it clear that “nothing is off the table,” including formal complaints to the bar and personal lawsuits against the prosecutors involved in the ridiculous case against him.
Randall Eliason, a former prosecutor from Pirro’s office, said, “This was just another example of Trump's Justice Department trying to please him and back up his fantasies through the misuse of the criminal justice system.”
Honestly, I have nothing to add to that. He hit the nail on the head.