Blanche on Trump potentially firing Pirro: "He's allowed to do that"

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said President Trump would be within his rights to fire Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after she dropped charges in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case. "Hypothetically, if the president chose to fire a United States attorney, it turns out he's allowed to do that because he's the president of the United States," he told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. "And, by the way, if President Trump wanted to fire anybody within his administration, he understands he has the power to do that. So, when he makes a decision about whether to fire a U.S. attorney or anybody else, that's his." President Trump told reporters Tuesday night he hasn't decided whether to keep the former Fox News host in the job, saying she was "totally wrong" to drop the case and that he was "not happy" with her. "I haven't made a determination," he said. After the president blamed vandalism for the reflecting pool's post-re