New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- she admitted her office had been wrong. The case against David Hearn, a three-time Olympian charged with vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, was built on facts that had since collapsed. The pool had not been sabotaged. It had been incompetently renovated by a contractor working under deadline pressure, and the prosecution could not prove otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt. Pirro filed to dismiss.

By that evening, the president who appointed her had posted the opposite conclusion on his social network.

"I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool," Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday night. He called it "a pure case of VANDALISM," insisted ...