Jeanine Pirro Says People Who 'Vandalize' Reflecting Pool Will Be Prosecuted
Source: Huff Post/Reuters
Jun 21, 2026, 05:05 PM EDT | Updated 9 hours ago
NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - People caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washingtons National Mall will be fully prosecuted, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Sunday.
President Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for recent problems with the newly renovated pool, including its new blue paint peeling off. Citations for vandalism have been issued, Pirro said on Sunday, adding that even minor crimes must be prosecuted to keep the U.S. capital safe.
The peeling paint was visible in the 2,000-foot-long rectangular pool, a major national landmark, less than two weeks after Trump declared its $14.7 million renovation project completed on June 6. Trump on Saturday claimed, without providing evidence, that vandals poured corrosive chemicals into the pool.
Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in D.C., Pirro told Fox News Sunday Briefing program.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reflecting-pool-jeannine-pirro_n_6a384620e4b0810d441d4373?origin=home-latest-news-unit
The latest "Pirro Special".
msongs
(74,508 posts)mountain grammy
(29,412 posts)Lock Donnie up right the hell now.
Old Crank
(7,428 posts)crawl back into her bottle.
Hey Joe
(895 posts)stupor just long enough to say something
stupid and cast blame over the innocent.
Just another day in the DOJ.
sheshe2
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Skittles
(173,633 posts)yes INDEED
and if anyone VANDLIZED that pool, it was DONALD FUCKING TRUMP
QueerDuck
(2,154 posts)MissouriDem47
(456 posts)Trump cost of us millions of dollars to do it. We should be paid back.
tanyev
(49,947 posts)Go get em, Jeanine! /sarcasm
azureblue
(2,772 posts)And pedo protector Pirro trying to distract- from two stupids --
1- using a dark color - anyone who knows pools knows that a dark color makes the bottom warm, which promotes Algae growth
2 - using Hydrogen peroxide will remove paint.
Flatrat
(184 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,377 posts)She still has to get the charges through a grand jury and, if she can do that, then she has to get past a jury.
KS Toronado
(24,185 posts)LeftInTX
(34,959 posts)Not vandalism...but I probably would have grabbed a piece of that stuff just out curiousity. It's not hurting anything. I guess if they post signs about not touching it, I guess it could result in a citation. But my hunch is that they didn't even have signs posted.
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(677 posts)If you don't pull off paint still attached to the bottom of the pool but only remove floating debris it sounds like you are helping to clean the park, not vandalize it.
As for why anyone would "vandalize" the "beautiful" pool - it must be because "Democrats hate America!"
Nope. Still can't wrap my brain around it.
The Blue Flower
(6,657 posts)What they're doing is criminal. Or should be.
Bluetus
(3,312 posts)She doesn't seem to know much about the law. Maybe there was a time when she knew some of this stuff, before her brain was pickled with alcohol.
Imaging the damage these people would be doing if they were as competent as Hitler's people. Hitler had a real mission other than himself. It was a terrible vision for humanity, but the point is that Hitler had a huge desire for it to be successful globally. While he led the charge, his vision was of a highly organized hierarchy, where strong leaders were in place at every level.
Trump's vision is personal wealth and unlimited personal power. He doesn't want ANY competent people around him. He only wants people who will follow his orders and help him achieve his crimes. These are not competent people. In fact, it is hard to imaging any less competent people thatn Pirro, Kennedy, Witkoff etc.
Miller may be the one exception. Hitler would have hired Miller in a heartbeat. How many of the others would Hitler have hired into positions of major authority?
Bengus81
(10,584 posts)Go for it, get a jury and roll your dice. Now...the ABC correspondent was "peeling rubber" off the surface??
You commenting while loaded Pirro?
Javaman
(66,031 posts)Bengus81
(10,584 posts)will laugh her ass out of the room faster than the sub sandwich "case".
travelingthrulife
(5,747 posts)WestMichRad
(3,520 posts)
than against anyone touching the peeled paint or poking at the water in the reflecting pool.
But such is the shitstains DOJ.
mwb970
(12,170 posts)It's a REALLY big pool. How much damage can one or two people do? Am I missing something here?
Dangling0826
(66 posts)In two and half years from now he will be!
LilElf70
(1,712 posts)has proven over and over again how much of a suck up classic airbag she is. It's how she got her current job. This woman likes to kiss rings.
GiqueCee
(5,070 posts)... aren't the first things that come to mind when discussing obsequious osculation.
LilElf70
(1,712 posts)I was in a good mood today......
GiqueCee
(5,070 posts)... this grumpy old buzzard harsh your mellow! Have a wonderful day. I would, but it's gonna rain this afternoon... again.
3catwoman3
(30,190 posts)GB_RN
(3,601 posts)Right after you polish off your morning booze bottle, go prosecute your boss for it. Hes the one, along with his corrupt crony-buddy who owns the contractor, who fucked it up. They are the vandals.
johnnyplankton
(677 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(21,031 posts)To the fullest extent of the law?
Surely you jest!
twodogsbarking
(19,846 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,846 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,751 posts)GiqueCee
(5,070 posts)And most of Washington D.C. as well. Talk about pointless destruction, just look at the hole in the ground where the East Wing used to be.
Norrrm
(6,103 posts)FakeNoose
(43,048 posts)Here's your proof of "vandalism" right here Jeanine!
If you're going to prosecute this, at least name the REAL culprits.

Captain Zero
(8,972 posts)That's a lot of weight if the liner seal is not completely dried or adhered.
cab67
(3,909 posts)Same practical impact.
twodogsbarking
(19,846 posts)SamuelAdams
(352 posts)Grins
(9,589 posts)It's about time the DoJ went after Trump. Who more describes that charge than Trump?
aggiesal
(11,002 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,243 posts)moonshinegnomie
(4,147 posts)the prosecutors involved should be disbarred and have to reimburse the so called vandals for legal expenses
maxsolomon
(39,430 posts)Can't have the discussion center on the Dotard's terrible idea of painting the Reflecting Pool dark blue without addressing the actual technical problems of maintaining a 1/3-mile-long petri dish.
hunter
(40,947 posts)... and loyalty to Trump is valued more than competence.
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,986 posts)

Martin68
(28,303 posts)mahina
(20,836 posts)oldsoldierfadingfast
(458 posts)with the idiot guy who ordered it and the idiot company that did the work!
vapor2
(5,140 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(183,986 posts)johnnyfins
(4,162 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,326 posts)3catwoman3
(30,190 posts)...Trump is the one who vandalized the Reflecting Pool.
LOCK HIM UP!
Captain Zero
(8,972 posts)We need to be playing and posting that video over and over!
That could have caused the liner NOT TO SEAL DOWN. IMHO.
sedwin
(3 posts)The GOP are corrupt and have proved to be inept in not only the Trump Presidency, the GOP controlled House and Senate, SCOTUS but in regular federal judges. Trump claimed COVID would last less than a week, he claimed he destroyed all of Irans nukes but then attacked Iran a second time, only a couple of months later, claiming he needed to destroy the nukes he claimed he already destroyed, he destroyed the East Wing of the White House ignoring US Law, destroyed the White House lawn building a fighting ring, miles of his border wall, that Mexico did NOT pay for, literally blew down in high winds and now, of course, the DC reflecting pool has been destroyed. All of these failures prove extreme corruption and ineptitude. Most likely the reflecting pool fiasco is because Trump hired a corrupt friend to do the work at an overly exaggerated price and or Trump ordered his own motorcade to drive over the newly painted pool.
Republicans are inept fools who are more than happy to jail innocents in an effort to avoid responsibility for their own ineptitude and corrupt activities. The fact the Piro is aiding in these lies and promising to prosecute innocents to protect Trump shows the criminality of the GOP control of all three branches of American government.
pat_k
(14,520 posts)She can bleat all she wants. I expect anything she pursues will be tossed with great speed.