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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s extraordinary campaign to blame an apparently botched renovation of Washington’s Reflecting Pool on vandals took another twist on Saturday when he attacked his handpicked prosecutor for dropping charges against an ex-Olympian arrested in the controversy.
Trump lashed out at federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host who has been a longtime supporter of the Republican president, after she sought to dismiss the charges, acknowledging in court documents that poor installation, not vandalism, apparently wrecked the multimillion dollar renovation on the National Mall.
“I disagree 100pc with Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.”
