President Donald Trump has held off from firing Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, despite angrily declaring she had “choked” in her handling of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case.Pirro filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against Olympic athlete David Hearn Friday after the Trump administration admitted that damage done to the D.C. landmark’s recently-installed blue liner, part of a troubled $14 million overhaul, was “the result of flawed installation by the contractor,” not the work of a saboteur.The president “spent the weekend fuming about that decision,” CNN reported, citing administration sources who suggested it was “highly likely she’s removed from her job”.According to CNN, Trump met with Pirro and Burgum on Monday afternoon but did not dismiss her, nor did she offer her resignation.Part of the reason for Trump’s anger with the former Fox News host was that he felt “blindsided” by the Department of Justice’s actions, with one administration official telling the outlet: “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.” Trump and Pirro reportedly spoke by phone Saturday about her actions, an exchange that “wasn’t pretty”, CNN’s sources said, and the president duly took to Truth Social to vent his frustrations.U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, who has reportedly left President Donald Trump ‘furious’ after dropping the charges against a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (Getty)“I disagree 100 percent with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” he wrote. “I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.”Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, whose department Pirro had blamed for providing “less than fulsome information” in her filing, also attacked her, writing in his post: “The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool.”Trump then expressed his fury in person Monday when, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said of the capital’s top federal prosecutor: “Frankly, I think she choked because the judge [D.C. Superior Court Justice Todd Edelman] was really vicious.“Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked.“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella.”He continued: “Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism. We have photographs or tapes, like moving cameras, right? Where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife. Trump raged against Pirro in the Oval Office Monday, saying she had ‘choked’ and ‘folded like an umbrella’ (Reuters)“Now, I’m not saying I was 100 percent thrilled with the contractor, but the contractor was rushing. We wanted to get it open for July 4, and we got it done. But, in addition, there was vandalism.”The president was then asked by a journalist whether he intends to keep her in her role. He did not answer the question but snapped back: “You’re fake news. Don’t ever talk again.”The Independent has reached out to the White House and DOJ for comment.The Reflecting Pool saga has unexpectedly come to dominate Trump’s summer when the U.S. is otherwise marking its 250th anniversary, waging war with Iran and struggling with an affordability crisis at home.When the new sealant began to appeal away from the pool’s base and it became clogged with algae blooms, giving its once clear blue surface the murky appearance of a swamp, the president was incensed and quickly blamed left-wing vandals.The troubled $14 million makeover of the Reflecting Pool has unexpectedly become the saga of the summer (Reuters)Hearn was one of several people arrested after being seen picking at a piece of loose tiling from the water’s edge but denied wrongdoing. Pirro then lambasted him at a July 2 press conference, claiming he had “woefully destroyed property” in a “deliberate act” to damage the pool by “forcefully and violently” pulling away its lining, only to then abruptly reverse course last week.“The Trump administration’s case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought,”Hearn’s counsel Norm Eisen, Mary Dohrmann and Steve Levin of Steptoe told The Independent.Pirro’s move to dismiss the case does not “erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong,” they said.“The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim. The administration owes Mr Hearn an apology.”