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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      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.)

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        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!

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    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

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    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.

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      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?”