Bill Maher has taken a brutal dig at President Donald Trump after his claims of vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were outed as being bogus by one of his own appointees.
"He lost Jeanine Pirro," Maher said, referring to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who dropped the prosecution of Olympic medalist David Hearn, 67, who had been arrested on an allegation that he vandalized the pool, turning it green with algae.
"Even she would not go along with his story about the reflecting pool, and she's pretty far MAGA," Maher added.
Pirro, 75, had initially echoed Trump's claims, saying there was "tremendous evidence" that Hearn had vandalized the pool. But she later dropped the case after concluding that the damage was caused by a "flawed installation by the contractor" hired to renovate the pool.
The 80-year-old president was quick to turn on Pirro, a former Fox News host he appointed to the role, while continuing to defend the $16 million renovation he had touted for months. The project was supposed to turn the pool an American-flag blue, but instead left behind a green, slime-covered disaster.
The pool was drained in June, so crews could apply the new coating. When the water was returned, so did algae blooms that required hydrogen peroxide treatments. Sheets of paint also peeled off the surface.
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