President Donald Trump said he won’t fire Washington’s top federal prosecutor over her decision to drop charges against a former Olympic paddler last week but continued to insist that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had been vandalized despite no evidence to support his allegations.
Trump told NBC News in a Thursday phone interview that Jeanine Pirro, a former New York prosecutor and judge who spent years as one of his most fervent defenders on Fox News, had “made a big mistake” in asking the District of Columbia Superior Court to dismiss charges against David Hearn, the ex-Olympian who’d been facing ten years in prison for touching part of the Reflecting Pool liner that had detached from the bottom of the pool.,
