Trump lashes out at Jeanine Pirro after she drops Reflecting Pool ‘vandalism’ charges: ‘I don’t know what she was thinking’
Former President Donald Trump publicly criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for dropping vandalism charges against a man accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro stated the damage was due to contractor error, but Trump insists the incident was an act of intentional vandalism.
Why it matters
This highlights a public disagreement between a former president and a legal official regarding the handling of property damage at a national monument.
President broke from Pirro’s admission that the damaged Reflecting Pool liner was the ‘result of flawed installation by the contractor’
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