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Tillis knocks Pirro over prosecuting Reflecting Pool vandals
Just the News ^ | 6/23/26 | Ben Whedon

Posted on 06/23/2026 1:21:50 PM PDT by CFW

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., this week criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over her planned prosecution of the alleged Reflecting Pool vandals, suggesting it was hypocritical for her to do so after President Donald Trump pardoned Jan. 6 participants.

Pirro indicated that she would prosecute the suspects in the Reflecting Pool vandalism incident, who are currently in custody. Trump organized renovations of the iconic site on the National Mall as part of a broader effort to renovate the city, which has faced scrutiny.

Tillis, for his part, expressed dismay that the administration would pursue charges against the vandals while allowing Jan. 6 participants to go free.

“I don’t know what’s worse to you, vandalizing a pool or assaulting a police officer?” he said, according to The Hill. “Now we got somebody, let’s say they took a pen knife to a damn pool liner, you’re going to prosecute them for 10 years?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: algae; pirro; pool; reflectingpool; rinos; senatortillis; thom; tillass; tillis
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I'm so glad Tillis will soon be gone. He wants to just give the left permission to destroy national monuments. We have a lot of RINOs to remove over the next 6 years.
1 posted on 06/23/2026 1:21:50 PM PDT by CFW
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Who gives a crap what this assistant Democrat thinks?


2 posted on 06/23/2026 1:22:37 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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What a POS.
Shame and condemn this man wherever you see him.


3 posted on 06/23/2026 1:23:19 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Tillis is apparently retarded....


4 posted on 06/23/2026 1:24:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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When did this goofball (yes, look up the history of that word) start spelling his surname as Tillis rather than Tillass?


5 posted on 06/23/2026 1:26:58 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Maybe the vandals have more work to do....Tommy.


6 posted on 06/23/2026 1:27:44 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Tillis is my senator. I would LOVE to meet him face to face and tell him what I think of him.
Don’t worry about Pirro...she’ll get hers back.


7 posted on 06/23/2026 1:29:01 PM PDT by ryderann
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. “Now we got somebody, let’s say they took a pen knife to a damn pool liner, you’re going to prosecute them for 10 years?”

...not nearly the same think peckerhead.


8 posted on 06/23/2026 1:29:44 PM PDT by albie
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This clown is a corrupt, paid for uniparty traitor. If he gets what is just none will morn.


9 posted on 06/23/2026 1:29:47 PM PDT by Skwor
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Sen. Thom Tillis has let his years in the U.S Senate turn him into a knucklehead. If he is married, I can imagine the hell his wife is going through. The least of which, he pisses all over the top and fails to put the seat down.


10 posted on 06/23/2026 1:30:14 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The DemonKKKrat Marxists ride Unicorns on their fantasy farms.)
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Favoring the vandals over J6 defendants.

Did FBI undercover agents act as agents provocateurs to entrap the pool vandals? Will the vandals get put in solitary without medication and with no access to legal consultation?
Will an unarmed woman at the reflecting pool get shot to dath like Ashley Babbitt?

I’m sure not.


11 posted on 06/23/2026 1:30:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Why are these “republicans” such wusses? Sheesh.


12 posted on 06/23/2026 1:31:06 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To all anti American vandals: Consider the time before doing the crime.


13 posted on 06/23/2026 1:32:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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“Tillis is apparently retarded....”


No, he is not. He knows exactly what he’s doing.


14 posted on 06/23/2026 1:32:17 PM PDT by Ken H (Freeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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Of course he does. He is a Democrat. He just had an “R” after his name and fooled some people for a while.


15 posted on 06/23/2026 1:35:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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Channeling his inner Obama/


16 posted on 06/23/2026 1:35:19 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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This lining was supposed to be knife proof, but within days, someone was able to carve a 250 foot gash in it. Something is not adding up.


17 posted on 06/23/2026 1:37:22 PM PDT by Kleon
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Trump takes two steps forward.

The Democrats push him back one full step.
Trash Republicans like Tillis push him back almost another full step.

It’s a wonder Trump makes any progress at all.


18 posted on 06/23/2026 1:38:03 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
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21m
🚨 NOW: Crews are now installing FENCING around the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool as rabid leftists REFUSE to stop tampering with it

These people need LENGTHY prison sentences.

The fencing will stay up until repairs to their vandalism are complete.


19 posted on 06/23/2026 1:38:41 PM PDT by CFW
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In the last nine days, TV news has wasted almost SEVEN HOURS whining about the Reflecting Pool.

CNN: 215 mins, 37 secs
MSNOW: 160 mins, 51 secs
CBS: 15 mins, 10 secs
ABC: 10 mins, 32 secs
NBC: 9 mins, 28 secs


20 posted on 06/23/2026 1:40:24 PM PDT by CFW
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