President Donald Trump urged US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reconsider a case involving alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after charges were recently dropped. He said that closer public inspection showed what he described as “pure vandalism”, making the dispute significant because it concerns damage to a prominent national memorial and the handling of a criminal case.

The article reports that Trump made the request on Friday and directed it specifically to Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia. It does not provide further detail in the supplied text on the people charged, the alleged damage, the reasons charges were dropped, or whether Pirro will reopen the matter.