Republican slams Jeanine Pirro for passing the buck: 'Learned that from the top'

Republicans lined up Saturday to hurl insults at former Fox News pundit Jeanine Pirro. Trump was first — taking to Truth Social to assert he "100%" disagreed with Pirro — then a onetime staffer of former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) joined the queue. "I don't see her feeling as though she has to face any real repercussions," Maura Gillespie said on MS NOW Saturday morning. "If she can offload the blame to somebody else, she will." Pirro drew ire from Trump and Gillespie for very different reasons but on the same subject: her decision to drop charges against an Olympian canoeist on Friday. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia finally admitted to a lack of evidence that David Hearn, 67, vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. "Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt," Pirro said in a filing. While Trump raged at Pirro for rejecting his claim that vandalism — and not slapdash construction — was to blame for issues with the reflection pool lining, Gillespie unloaded on Pirro for trying to dodge blame. "Pirro largely blamed the Department of Interior for the confusion on her part," Gillespie said. "[Pirro] learned that from the top."MS NOW host Alex Witt marveled at Pirro's sudden backtrack after having initially pursued the case with such aggression. In recent weeks, Pirro threatened a journalist and boasted of "tremendous evidence" as she defended the case. "She really came hard at this," said Witt. "That is her style, no doubt."Gillespie agreed, then took aim at the Trump administration for having botched the renovation job in the first place."What's important to highlight is the misuse of funds," she said. "American dollars...are being spent frivolously because they're not being thoughtfully planned and orchestrated and decided upon."If I were a Republican running for office right now, I would point to getting a better handle on our economy, getting a better handle on how our dollars are spent, which was the initial goal of the Trump administration."