Doug Burgum doubles down on Trump’s Relecting Pool ‘vandals’ fantasy & points the finger at Jeanine Pirro

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum publicly challenged Jeanine Pirro on Saturday, deepening an extraordinary dispute inside President Donald Trump’s administration over who bears responsibility for a felony prosecution that collapsed after government records undercut its central premise.Earlier in the day, Trump attacked Pirro, his hand-picked U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, after her office moved Friday to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I don’t know what she was thinking?”Hours later, Burgum sided with the president. “The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool,” Burgum wrote on X. “Some of these acts were even caught on camera.”Related: Trump’s Reflecting Pool lie needed a vandal. Jeanine Pirro served him up an innocent American He also disputed Pirro’s explanation for why prosecutors pursued Hearn. Burgum said Interior provided prosecutors with expert testimony, eyewitness accounts and “every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested timeline detailing each area of damage at the pool.”Pirro’s office told a judge something starkly different.Related: Trump rages after Jeanine Pirro abandons his imaginary Reflecting Pool vandalsIn a 19-page motion filed Friday, prosecutors said Interior initially supplied “barebones” reports and “less than fulsome information.” They said records disclosed only after the indictment revealed that the pool’s new blue coating had been compromised by a “rushed and botched installation” marked by blistering, overspray, poor bonding and peeling that began before Hearn encountered it.“Had DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession,” prosecutors wrote, “the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment.”The dispute follows week