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Trump considering firing Jeanine Pirro over her handling of Reflecting Pool case.

Trump considering firing Jeanine Pirro over her handling of Reflecting Pool case.
Jeanine Pirro speaks during the swearing-in ceremony as interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 28, 2025 Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters

Donald Trump is reportedly considering firing the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, after her office dropped the Reflecting Pool case.

Trump was “furious” with Pirro and fumed about her all weekend, CNN reported. Sources told the outlet that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

“The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that,” another source said, adding that Trump was “blindsided” by Pirro’s court filing.

Trump publicly voiced his frustration with Pirro while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

“Frankly, I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked,” Trump said.

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

The Justice Department acknowledged in a court filing Friday that Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool was “hasty and botched” and said it was dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the pool.

“The damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI,” Pirro’s office wrote.

“A recent visual inspection showed damage throughout the Reflecting Pool, even in the middle of the pool, where a vandal would not likely attempt to peel the lining,” prosecutors added. “Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Trump dismissed Pirro’s findings.

“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.”

Interior SecretaryDoug Burgum also blamed vandals for the Reflecting Pool woes.

“The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool,” Burgum wrote on Twitter. “Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney’s office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool.”