President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum still say vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a day after federal prosecutors said government contractors — and the DOI — were to blame.
Trump criticized U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s motion to dismiss the case after the agency assessed that a “flawed installation by the contractor” caused damage to the famed water feature. The filing contradicted the president and other White House officials’ weekslong allegations of vandalism.
“I don’t know what she was thinking?” Trump said of Pirro, one of his staunch allies, on Truth Social Saturday. “There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”