AG Todd Blanche Defends Jeanine Pirro Despite Trump Recently Trashing Her: She’s Doing a ‘Phenomenal Job’

Newly-confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a glowing review of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s job performance despite heavy recent criticism from President Donald Trump.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Blanche defended Pirro despite Trump saying she “choked” by moving to drop the case against David Hearn — who had been charged with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

“I absolutely support U.S. Attorney [for the District of Columbia] Pirro as does President Trump,” Blanche told NBC’s Kristen Welker. “Now, that’s different than whether the president is extraordinarily frustrated at what happened in that case. And I don’t in any way fault him for that.”

Blanche went on to claim “the filings didn’t say that all of the damage was done by faulty construction, okay? So that’s where the media is getting some of the reporting wrong.”

“Well, it says the damage was done as a result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented,” Welker interjected.

“There was potential vandalism,” Blanche said. “And we know that there was vandalism because there’s witnesses. That’s also in the brief that you’re citing that there’s witnesses that talked about the fact that there was vandalism.”

“What do you mean by potential vandalism?” Welker asked. “Who did it?”

“Well, there’s a witness that said, ‘I observed the defendant vandalizing the reflecting pool,'” Blanche said. “Now, that’s different than whether ultimately we have the proof. And you saw what U.S. Attorney Pirro said about that in her filings.”

Blanche wrapped up his comments by going to bat for the U.S. attorney Trump said “folded like an umbrella” and was reportedly considering firing.

“We’re talking about a single case, OK?” Blanche said. “We’re talking about one case. We had another case of vandalism against a memorial earlier this week. This is horrible what’s happening in our nation’s capital with some of these really, really sick people vandalizing our national monuments. And U.S. Attorney Pirro is doing a phenomenal job enforcing that, going after anybody who’s doing it. And I think judging her on a single case because of the evidence that we had is not fair.”

Watch above, via NBC.

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