President Donald Trump has newly urged US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to revisit the recently dropped case concerning alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The intervention puts renewed attention on the handling of potential criminal damage at one of Washington’s most prominent national memorials.

Trump made the appeal on Friday, saying that closer public viewing had revealed what he called “pure vandalism”. The supplied article text does not state who was charged, the extent of the alleged damage, why the charges were dropped, or whether Pirro intends to reopen the case.