Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro over decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case

President Donald Trump criticized longtime ally Jeanine Pirro Saturday after she agreed to drop a case against a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

President Donald Trump criticized longtime ally Jeanine Pirro Saturday after she agreed to drop a case against a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking?” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, adding “it was a pure case of VANDALISM.”

“There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!” the president added.

Pirro’s office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, said Friday it had obtained information that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against David “Davey” Hearn.

Hearn was indicted on July 2 over claims that he was “forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner” of the pool with both hands on June 19 — shortly after the pool had undergone renovations directed by the president.