2026-08-04T20:41:36.103Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/politics/trump-jeanine-pirro-reflecting-pool
据两位熟悉这场激烈讨论的消息人士透露，当地时间周一晚间，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫的一场会议上怒斥美国检察官珍妮·皮罗，原因是她提交的一份法庭文件将倒影池受损归咎于施工质量低劣，而非故意破坏。
据了解相关内情的人士透露，这场看似处理失当的倒影池翻新工程以及随后的故意破坏指控，让皮罗与同样出席了此次会议的内政部长道格·伯根姆之间产生了严重分歧。消息人士告诉CNN，尽管特朗普私下严厉批评了皮罗，但他周一并未解雇她，也没有要求她辞职。
根据法庭记录，华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室上周晚些时候决定撤销对一名前奥林匹克运动员破坏泳池内衬的指控。皮罗的检察官在法庭上表示，他们此前一直被内政部误导，直到最近几天伯根姆的团队才提交了相关记录，显示早在奥运皮划艇运动员戴维·赫恩到访倒影池之前，泳池就已存在严重损坏。
据熟悉此事的人士透露，皮罗私下曾向西翼的高级助手抨击伯根姆的团队，并将责任完全归咎于内政部，称内政部未能在她提交案件前提供证据，证明该案无法提起公诉。另一位了解此次会议的人士表示，皮罗带着大量证据抵达白宫，以支持她的主张：倒影池的损坏是施工质量问题所致，而非故意破坏。
熟悉美国检察官办公室内部运作的人士告诉CNN，是皮罗本人做出了撤销此案的决定，并且还提前与司法部和白宫的官员讨论了她驳回此案的计划。她的办公室拒绝置评。
其中一位熟悉相关情况的人士表示，这一决定让内政部陷入被动，也激怒了伯根姆及其团队。他们认为，在法律文件中明确指责内政部是不必要的对抗行为。他们还质疑皮罗为何不先私下解决她的担忧，反而选择公开披露该案的缺陷，以此突袭特朗普和其他高级官员。
该人士补充道，特朗普对倒影池相关的任何批评都越来越敏感，因为他个人参与了该项目，并且将该项目部分视为对自己作为开发商能力的检验。
白宫和内政部未回复置评请求。
两位听取了会议情况通报的消息人士称，周一晚间的会议上，特朗普对皮罗的愤怒显而易见，他冲着皮罗大喊大叫，并“严厉斥责了她”。尽管白宫官员表示皮罗目前仍处境危险，但多位熟悉两人关系的消息人士称，考虑到她与特朗普多年的交情，他们认为皮罗目前暂时安全。
“他很难解雇她。他欣赏她，而且他也不像第一任期时那么冲动了，”其中一位消息人士说道，同时也指出“任何事都有可能发生”。
自15个月前就任华盛顿特区美国检察官以来，皮罗一直如履薄冰，因为特朗普利用华盛顿特区的执法工作来确立其政府的政治基调。
在她任职期间，特朗普向美国首都增派了联邦执法人员，导致皮罗的办公室需要处理的法庭刑事案件数量呈指数级增长。他领导的司法部还解雇了美国检察官办公室内多名经验丰富的检察官，原因是这些检察官曾参与国会山骚乱事件的相关案件或此前对特朗普的起诉。
大陪审团和审判陪审团也经常在华盛顿特区联邦法院驳回检察官的论点——这显然是对特朗普政府办案方式的否决。
“刑事部门的人力和士气都承受着巨大压力。你现在已经看到了这一点：这些案件被提起，却纷纷失败，”凯文·欧文说道。他代表了几位在本届特朗普政府早期被解雇的前华盛顿特区联邦检察官。
尽管如此，皮罗还是稳定了她所在的美国检察官办公室的部分团队，包括负责处理倒影池案件的华盛顿特区高等法院检察官团队。一位消息人士称，有时她会直接致电代理司法部长托德·布兰奇，为检察官的调查工作争取支持，以此帮助她手下的检察官处理备受瞩目的案件。
在倒影池案中，皮罗支持了签署撤销对该奥林匹克运动员指控文件的资深职业检察官。
五位熟悉该办公室的消息人士表示，她和办公室其他人员都尊重检察官迈克尔·斯彭斯。斯彭斯曾是凶杀案检察官，如今领导着办公室负责华盛顿特区高等法院（即地方刑事案件）的部门。
一些消息人士称，在该办公室内部，最初人们认为这是一起检察官可以依法提起诉讼的案件，因为皮罗的办公室掌握着公园警方关于倒影池受损的证词。在提起指控前，检察官们曾就该案应归属联邦法院还是高等法院展开过辩论。
最终，该案在独立日前夕获得了高等法院大陪审团的批准，并迅速进入司法程序。7月17日，皮罗与其他人一同参观了当时已排空的倒影池。据法庭记录显示，此次参观后，检察官开始向内政部索要更多信息。
特朗普和皮罗都是纽约人，相识数十年。皮罗此前曾在福克斯新闻担任主持人，尤其是在2020年大选期间，她反复宣扬特朗普被窃取选举胜利的不实言论，当时她坚定支持特朗普。
皮罗曾多次因试图迎合特朗普而震惊法律界。她将一些亲密工作人员调往处理具有高度政治色彩的案件，这些案件是特朗普的优先事项，并且在很大程度上将这些工作人员与美国检察官办公室的其他部门隔离开来。
在过去一年里，皮罗曾试图以国会议员录制的一段被法院认定为受第一修正案保护的言论为由起诉他们，但未成功。她还曾试图调查前美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔，并批评华盛顿特区地区法院首席法官驳回了相关传票。
不过，她办公室的职业检察官表示，他们欣赏她对暴力犯罪的强硬起诉态度，以及她作为纽约州前地区检察官的法律素养。消息人士称，她还继续私下与法官会面——这是美国检察官与司法机构保持关系的常见做法——包括华盛顿特区高等法院和华盛顿特区联邦地区法院的法官。
CNN的阿莱娜·特里恩为本文报道贡献了内容。
Trump laid into Pirro in a tense White House meeting. But their long history might save her job
2026-08-04T20:41:36.103Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/politics/trump-jeanine-pirro-reflecting-pool
President Donald Trump laid into US Attorney Jeanine Pirro at a White House meeting Monday evening over a court filing that blamed the Reflecting Pool damage on shoddy workmanship rather than vandalism, according to two people familiar with the intense discussion.
The seemingly botched Reflecting Pool renovation and subsequent vandalism charges have created a deep divide between Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who was also at the meeting, according to people familiar with the dynamic. While Trump has privately lambasted Pirro, he stopped short of firing her or asking for her resignation on Monday, sources told CNN.
The DC US Attorney’s Office late last week decided to drop the case that accused an ex-Olympian of ripping up some of the pool lining, with Pirro’s prosecutors saying in court they believed they had been misled by the Interior Department until recent days, when Burgum’s staff finally turned over records showing the pool had significant damage long before Olympic canoeist David Hearn visited the pool, according to court records.
Privately, Pirro has blasted Burgum’s staff to senior aides in the West Wing, and put the blame squarely on Interior for failing to arm her with the evidence — before she presented the case — that exposed the case wasn’t prosecutable, according to the people familiar with the matter. Pirro arrived at the White House with boxes of evidence to back up her claims that the damage at the reflecting pool was caused by shoddy workmanship, not vandalism, according to another person with knowledge of the meeting.
Pirro herself made the call to drop the case and also preemptively discussed her plans to dismiss it with officials in both the Justice Department and the White House, people familiar with the inner workings of the US Attorney’s Office told CNN.Her office declined to comment.
The decision put the Interior Department on the defensive and irritated Burgum and his team, who believed that explicitly blaming the department in the legal filing was unnecessarily antagonistic, one of the people familiar with dynamic said. They have also questioned why Pirro did not first seek to address her concerns in private, arguing she instead chose to blindside Trump and other top officials by publicly airing the case’s shortcomings.
That person added that the president has been increasingly sensitive to any criticism around the Reflecting Pool, given his personal investment in a project that he views partly as a referendum on his own skill as a developer.
The White House and Interior Department did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump’s frustration towards Pirro was palpable Monday night during the meeting, where Trump yelled at Pirro and “read her the riot act,” according to two sources briefed on the meeting. While White House officials said that Pirro was still on thin ice, multiple sources familiar with the relationship said they believe Pirro is safe, for now, citing her years-long relationship with Trump.
“It would be hard for him to fire her. He likes her and he’s not the same impulsive guy he was during the first term,” one of the sources said, while still noting that “anything can happen.”
Since becoming DC’s US Attorney 15 months ago, Pirro has been forced onto a tightrope as Trump has used law enforcement in DC to set the political tone of his administration.
During her tenure, Trump surged federal law enforcement into the nation’s capital city, prompting Pirro’s office to field exponentially more criminal cases in court. His Justice Department leadership also fired many experienced prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office because they had worked on January 6 Capitol riot cases or previous Trump prosecutions.
Grand juries and trial juries also have regularly rejected prosecutors’ arguments in DC’s federal court — an apparent referendum on the Trump administration’s approach.
“There has been a significant strain on both the manpower and the morale of the criminal division. You’ve seen that play out right now. That these cases are being brought and they’re falling apart,” said Kevin Owen, an attorney who represents several former DC-based federal prosecutors who were fired early in this Trump administration.
Still, Pirro has steadied parts of her US Attorney’s Office, including the DC Superior Court section of prosecutors, which handled the Reflecting Pool cases. At times, she has helped her career prosecutors in high-profile cases by calling acting Attorney General Todd Blanche directly to gain support for their investigative work, one source said.
In the Reflecting Pool case, Pirro has backed the long-time career prosecutor who signed the filing to dismiss the case against the Olympian.
Five sources familiar with the office say she and others there respect the prosecutor, Michael Spence, a former homicide prosecutor who now leads the part of the office responsible for DC Superior Court — or local, criminal cases.
Within the US Attorney’s Office, the case was initially seen as one prosecutors could legally pursue because of the record Pirro’s office had of testimony from Park Police regarding the Reflecting Pool damage. Prosecutors debated — before charges were filed — whether the case should be in federal or Superior Court, some of the sources said.
Ultimately, the case received a Superior Court grand jury’s approval just before Independence Day, and had been moving through court quickly. On July 17, Pirro visited the then-drained Reflecting Pool with others. After that visit, prosecutors began demanding more information from the Interior Department, court records say.
Trump and Pirro, both New Yorkers, have known each other for decades. Pirro was staunchly behind Trump while she was previously a host at Fox News and, notably, after the 2020 election when she repeated his debunked claims that the election was stolen from him.
Several times, Pirro has shocked the legal community with her attempts to appease Trump. She has detailed some close staffers to work on the highly political cases that are Trump priorities, largely walling them off from the rest of the US Attorney’s Office.
Over the past year, Pirro has attempted unsuccessfully to indict sitting members of Congress for a video they taped that courts have found was First Amendment-protected speech. She also has tried to investigate former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and criticized the chief judge of the DC District Court for shutting down a related subpoena.
Yet career prosecutors in her office have said they appreciate her aggressive approach to prosecuting violent crime and her legal chops as a former district attorney in New York state. And she continues to meet with judges privately — it’s common practice for US Attorneys to maintain a relationship with the bench — in both the DC Superior Court and DC’s federal District Court, sources say.
CNN’s Alayna Treene contributed to this report.
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