This Is Why Jeanine Pirro Defied Trump: Wolff

Donald Trump’s longtime biographer has lauded Jeanine Pirro for resisting intense pressure from the president to prosecute a supposed “vandal” without evidence.

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Michael Wolff tells the Inside Trump’s Head podcast that he believes Trump’s hand-picked D.C. prosecutor and MAGA ally had a “burst of clarity” when she decided to drop charges against the former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

“It’s just flatly not true. It is obviously not true,” Wolf said of the accusations against Hearn. “If it went before a judge, it would be thrown out. She… could be sanctioned on this.”

Wolff continued, “Trump wants this done, but she has to do it, and she has to do it in her name,” he explained. “So I think it just got to be too much for her. I think she just said, ‘I can’t. There is just no way. Even I, a loyal—abjectly loyal—Trump functionary, factotum, I can’t do this.’”

Hearn, 67, had pleaded not guilty to a single count of destruction of property. His lawyers said in a statement that the administration owes him an apology—though there has been zero indication from the White House that one is coming.

Rather, the 80-year-old Trump has raged at Pirro over her decision to drop the charges, saying in the Oval Office on Monday that she had “choked” and “folded like an umbrella.”

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“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,” he said of the former Fox News pundit. “Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked. I don’t know what the hell happened.”

Neither the White House nor Pirro’s office immediately returned the Daily Beast’s requests for comment.

Asked by co-host Joanna Coles why Pirro would make such a decision that would anger the president, Wolff theorized that this lie was just “too much for her.” He said that he thinks Pirro experienced a burst of “incredulity” at the tricky situation she found herself in.

“Somehow, in her mind, I think she said, ‘I’m in… a terrible corner here,’” he said. “Some people suddenly say, ’I have a reputation. I’m Judge Jeanine, I have a reputation.’”

“There’s an old expression: There is some s–t I cannot eat,” Wolff added. “I think that she just came to the end of the road. And I’m sure she now regrets it, by the way. But I think she had a burst of… clarity, a burst of just, ‘Can I do anything else?’”