Trump on Jeanine Pirro's future: "I haven't made a determination"

President Trump said Tuesday night he hasn't decided whether to keep Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after she dropped charges against David Hearn, a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

"I haven't made a determination," he told reporters when asked whether he would keep the former Fox News host in the position.

After the president blamed vandalism for the reflecting pool's post-renovation troubles, Ms. Pirro charged Mr. Hearn, who had reached into the water to touch a piece of floating paint, with felony vandalism.

"This is not only a priority for the president, but for myself," Ms. Pirro said when announcing the charges in early July. "We will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hearn willfully destroyed property."

But on Friday, Ms. Pirro filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying the damage was "the result of a botched installation and not vandalism" and that prosecutors had been misled by the Interior Department.

"I just think she's totally wrong. They did a beautiful job," the president told reporters at Los Angeles International Airport. "There were a couple of little things but that was not a big deal."

"And everybody saw the vandalism," he continued. "All you have to do is look at the tape. If you look at the tape — plus we have a witness or two witnesses that saw the vandalism. So, certainly there was vandalism. Actually, in my opinion, it was major vandalism, and I told her I was not happy."

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