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Pirro Chose Justice Over Trump · Commentary - TJ Meadows

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  Speaker 1: Finally something worth discussing about Washington's reflecting pool. Our system
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  Speaker 1: can still work, even under pressure from the commander in chief.
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  Speaker 1: The US Attorney's Office has asked a judge to dismiss
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  Speaker 1: its felony case against David Hearn, a three time Olympian,
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  Speaker 1: accused of damaging the newly renovated pool. Why Interior Department
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  Speaker 1: records showed the lining was poorly installed and began failing
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  Speaker 1: almost immediately. A later inspection found pealing throughout the pool,
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  Speaker 1: including in the center, where no supposed vandal would likely go.
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  Speaker 1: Herne should never have been charged on the evidence initially available,
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  Speaker 1: but when prosecutors obtained the complete picture, they corrected course
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  Speaker 1: the system worked. President Trump was furious. Quote, I disagree
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent with Janine Piro. He wrote to me.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pure case of vandalism. That's more than
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  Speaker 1: Trump intended. I disagree, not the Justice Department, not the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: I but guilt is not determined by what something looks
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  Speaker 1: like to Donald Trump or to any president. It's determined
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  Speaker 1: by admissible evidence, the law, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Personal grievances have no place in criminal justice. When prosecution
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  Speaker 1: becomes personal, it risks becoming an instrument of revenge, not justice.
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  Speaker 1: Piro's office deserves criticism for bringing such a serious charge
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  Speaker 1: without the full record, But when evidence undermined the case,
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  Speaker 1: she refused to pursue a convenient scapegoat merely to help
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  Speaker 1: the president save face that may carry a personal cost.
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  Speaker 1: Good for her. This is no longer mainly about a
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  Speaker 1: damaged pull. It's about whether evidence or ego will determine
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  Speaker 1: the exercise of government power. This time evidence prevailed, may
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  Speaker 1: it always? And one more thing. If choosing the rule
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  Speaker 1: of law over the president somehow infects me with Trump
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  Speaker 1: derangement syndrome, so be it better infected in a country's
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  Speaker 1: stand than healthy and a country fall