Jennings compares latest DOJ gaffe to 'monkey having intimate relations with a football'
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CNN ‘News Night’ pundit Scott Jennings (YouTube/ScreenGrab)
Republican pundit and avid Trump supporter Scott Jennings pulled no punches during a Friday panel discussion over the DOJ’s admission that it had no case to prosecute an Olympian for Reflecting Pool vandalism.
The Trump administration dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool late Friday after admitting their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn “don’t hold water,” NBC reported.
A supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials information undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against Hearn.
A flabbergasted Jennings told Erica Hill, guest anchor of CNN’s “The Source,” that he considered this a faceplant moment and an excruciating embarrassment for President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.
“On this one, the administration looks like a monkey having intimate relations with a football,” Jennings told Hill flatly. “It looks terrible. And, you know, after everything that was said, this guy, he is owed an apology. And I don't know what the procedures are for it, but he ought to sue anybody that he thinks he can to get his name back. I have a strong reaction, to be honest with you, when people have their name dragged through the mud, and that's obviously what happened here.”
Pirro herself stood before an audience at the time of Hearn’s indictment and called him a vandal who'd damaged the Reflecting pool with both hands.
Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told Hill that this brutal humiliation will do nothing, however, to temper the Trump administration’s willingness to use the DOJ as a weapon.
“He is owed an apology. And I think that Pirro should step down or she should be fired. I mean, this is an indication of the clown car that this administration has become and in an example of incompetence, of buffoonery and complete unseriousness,” said Cardona. “This isn't the only time where the department of justice has been seen as a vehicle to do Trump's bidding, as opposed to dispensing justice under law for the American people. You even have judges across the country who are saying they don't even trust the attorneys that are before them in cases, and various cases coming from the department of justice. This is just sort of the icing on that ridiculous, embarrassing cake.”
“I do think he's owed an apology. I don't think he's going to get it,” Cardona added. “And I think that this is also going to reflect badly on Republicans, as we go into the midterm elections, as an example of so much that is wrong with this administration and the Republicans who have been unable and unwilling to stand up to it.”