'Can’t indict a ham sandwich': Trump prosecutor brutally mocked after DC case fails

Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host President Donald Trump chose as a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, drew a great deal of criticism when she stridently vowed to make sure Charles Sean Dunn — a former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) paralegal — was aggressively prosecuted for throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in Washington, D.C. "Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted," Pirro declared.

Pirro, critics argued, was being a hypocrite in light of the fact that Trump pardoned rioters who violently attacked police officers when they invaded the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

Pirro's critics also said that she didn't have a substantial case. And on Wednesday morning, August 27, the New York Times reported that DOJ prosecutors "were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against" Dunn.

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According to NY Times reporters y Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett and William K. Rashbaum, "The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the (Trump) Administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to the apartment of the man, Sean C. Dunn, to arrest him."

The news about Dunn, dubbed "Sandwich Guy" in media reports, is drawing a lot of discussion on X, formerly Twitter.

The Atlantic's Shane Harris tweeted, "Turns out you can't indict a ham sandwich."

Content creator Prabhas Sankar commented, "The unusual case, which initially drew attention for its almost comical circumstances,

highlights the challenges prosecutors face when trying to prove intent and threat in incidents that may appear more trivial than dangerous. While assaulting a federal officer is generally treated as a serious offense, the grand jury's apparent reluctance to indict suggests that the evidence did not rise to the level of a prosecutable crime in their view. Legal analysts note that such cases often hinge on context — whether the act was seen as a genuine threat to safety or simply a rash, impulsive gesture without harmful intent."

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X user Sarah Majdov posted, "It sounds like straight from the Onion."

Another X user, Jason Frakk, wrote, "A federal agent, tactical gear, a sandwich, and a SUBWAY. The only thing indicted here is the absurdity of it all. Guess some D.C. cases just don't have the filling to stick."

X user Errol Meade posted video of Pirro and remarked, "Dumbest possible people running America."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky, writer Ian Boudreau said of Pirro, "The prosecutor who failed to get a grand jury to indict the sandwich guy has to be experiencing rock bottom right now

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