Fox News host Shannon Bream questioned Jeanine Pirro, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Attorney for D.C., after Pirro was unable to get a grand jury to indict a man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer.
“So you talk about getting to court, getting your prosecutors together and getting these cases together,” Bream said in a Sunday interview. “But here’s the headline from the Washington Post just days ago. It said D.C. judges and grand jurors push back on Trump policing surge.”
“There’s at least one high-profile case where they’re making a lot of headline news about the fact that you couldn’t get a grand jury to indict,” Bream added.
“I know the case that they’re referencing, and there’s not a lot I can talk about in terms of grand juries,” Pirro responded. “But what I can tell you is this: there are a lot of people who sit on juries, and they live in Georgetown or in northwest D.C., in some of these nicer areas, and they don’t see the reality of crime that is happening.”
Pirro continued, “My office has been instructed to move for the highest crime possible, consistent with the law, the statute, and the evidence. And in that one case, in that particular article, we were on point. But the grand jurors don’t take it so seriously. They’re like, ‘whatever.'”
She explained that the Department of Justice decided to charge Sean Dunn, the man accused of throwing the sandwich, with a misdemeanor after the grand jury declined to indict him.
“My job is to protect the victim,” Pirro said. “We’re going to make the criminal accountable.”
