It’s a case of poetic justice made for the Internet.
Self-adulating U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro just received a large dose of humiliation, not mitigated in the slightest by her own inability to feel shame.
You know the famous adage that “you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich”?
Well, a Washington, D.C. grand jury sided Tuesday not only with the sandwich but with the young man who slung it at the chest of a Customs and Border Protection agent who Donald Trump wants to appropriate as a storm trooper.
The grand jury took the extraordinary step of declining felony charges against Sean Charles Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal, who had been enraged by the presence of agents in a peaceful D.C. restaurant-and-bar neighborhood.
Dunn has become something of an Internet folk hero since video captured him hurling his protest sub.
Undoubtedly, the grand jurors had to be pushing back against what they saw as a dramatic overcharging of Dunn with a felony. Good for them.
Why? Because ever since her broom landed in the U.S. Attorney’s office, Pirro has cackled that every Trumpian case on her watch must be charged up to the max. Just because she can.
There should be another adage for that: Bad people make bad prosecutors.
Get ready to be tired of losing.
And I’m enjoying the online backup that Dunn has been receiving, with my personal favorite being this one from poster Tim Massie raising the perfect question:
"What did Pirro want him charged with? Assault with a deli weapon?”
Let us not forget that this same Pirro was just fine with Trump pardoning as patriots 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists — including 14 commutations for full-out violent criminals — for their role in trying to overturn his election defeat on January 6, 2021.
Four policemen lost their lives, and at least 174 were injured as a result of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s patriots were not known to attack police with a single sandwich. No — their weapons included firearms, tasers, knives, crowbars, flagpoles bearing the American flag, fire extinguishers, and pepper spray.
So we don’t need a single lecture from the former Fox News ghoul — nor the First Felon — about protecting police.
Allow me to share the insults Dunn hurled at Trump’s police-state platoon along with the sandwich, straight from the police report:
“F––– you! You f–––––– fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!”
Maybe Dunn shouldn’t have wasted his sandwich on this, but I’m fine with him speaking his piece as an American who doesn’t wish to live in a police state. Even better were the grand jurors who sent “Judge Jeanine” a loud-and-clear sandwich message Tuesday.
Now, let the good memes roll.