Donald Trump’s most high-profile prosecutors were humiliated by a jury Thursday as it cleared a man who hurled a hoagie at a federal agent of assault.
The jury in Washington D.C. took almost 24 hours to return a not guilty verdict on Sean Dunn, who threw a footlong sandwich at Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore in the first days of Trump’s troop surge in the capital.
The verdict marked an embarrassing end to a months-long drive by Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and his U.S. district attorney in D.C., ex-Fox News personality “Judge” Jeanine Pirro, to convict Dunn.
The duo had first been refused a felony indictment by a grand jury—a vanishingly rare occurrence—then pressed ahead with misdemeanor charges of assault and obstructing a federal agent by “throwing a sandwich at a federa

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